[BLUETOOTH] Atheros AR30xx firmware

0mani · 04-02-2012, 12:36 AM

I am running slackware 13.37 with the latest 3.2.13 Stable kernel.
I have compiled it with support for my Bluetooth hardware, the AR9285/AR3000.

It's a dual wifi/bluetooth chip supplied with my Dell Vostro 3350

How ever, upon loading the firmware i encounter some issues with the firmware. And i cant figure it out. If any one can help me get this sorted it will be greatly appreciated.

lsusb;

Code:

Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0cf3:3002 Atheros Communications, Inc.

dmesg;

Code:

Bluetooth: Atheros AR30xx firmware driver ver 1.0
usbcore: registered new interface driver ath3k
Bluetooth: Error loading firmware
ath3k: probe of 3-1.4:1.0 failed with error -5

I have been reading through a lot of bug reports and it seems to be a issue with the device id not being added to the firmware, if i have understood it correctly.
I have also read that there was a patch released to update the device IDs for this chip, but that was already back in 2.6 kernels.

Am i missing some thing? Do i need to patch my kernel? If so, where can i find this patch?

Thanks.

ozanbaba · 04-26-2012, 01:34 PM

Code:

Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0cf3:3002 Atheros Communications, Inc.

I have same hardware on my computer and facing same problem. I searched around and all I found was some pages about some old patch. I'll let you know If I found something.

ozanbaba · 04-26-2012, 10:21 PM

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath3k
I searched /lib/firmware for its firmware and found none. Maybe it's missing in the packages. Anyway, can you try downloading the firmware and cp it to /lib/firmware. After that rmmod ath3; modprobe ath3 to use if it will work.

PS: I am at work and I can't try it myself for about 5 hours.