Hello all, I'm trying to use the Kinivo BTD-400 Bluetooth 4.0 USB adapter with Ubuntu 8.04.3 and I'm not having good luck. A user who reviewed the product said it worked with Ubuntu 12.04 out of the box so I'm wondering if my software is just too out-of-date.

I'm running a custom Linux 2.6.30.5 and I configured it for BlueTooth support (HCI USB driver was all that I needed to enable ) and installed the new kernel, but it just doesn't seem to handle the device right when I plug it in...

dmesg seems to confirm that I did in fact enable support in the kernel

This is the message I get when I plug it in


I installed the bluez utilities and library files from the apt repositories as well as "blueman" (gnome bluetooth manager) but neither see the device. I also downloaded and installed bluez 3.36 (newest I could install) but this had no difference.

I did try compiling/installing bluez 4 but had some compiling errors so want to know if I'm working in the right direction before I really try to tackle that.

Is there anything else that I'm not aware of which I should be checking?

Thanks

Ubuntu 8.04 is "end of life" and completely unsupported. It has no drivers for hardware newer than April 2008 (its release date).

Yeah, I've been doing my best to just compile new versions of stuff by hand but I think I've finally hit a wall with this. Guess I'll have to bite the bullet and try out a new version.