I'm currently using an MSI WS60 laptop which contains the following Bluetooth controller (from lsusb): Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0cf3:3004 Atheros Communications, Inc. AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 and the more detailed version: Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0cf3:3004 Atheros Communications, Inc. AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 Device Descriptor: bLength 18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 1.10 bDeviceClass 224 Wireless bDeviceSubClass 1 Radio Frequency bDeviceProtocol 1 Bluetooth bMaxPacketSize0 64 idVendor 0x0cf3 Atheros Communications, Inc. idProduct 0x3004 AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 bcdDevice 0.01 iManufacturer 0 iProduct 0 iSerial 0 bNumConfigurations 1 Configuration Descriptor: In my kernel logs I see the following: $dmesg | grep -i bluetooth [ 0.334727] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.20 [ 0.334734] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized [ 0.334736] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized [ 0.334738] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized [ 0.334740] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized [ 0.604281] Bluetooth: HCI UART driver ver 2.2 [ 0.604283] Bluetooth: HCI H4 protocol initialized [ 0.604285] Bluetooth: HCI BCSP protocol initialized [ 0.604286] Bluetooth: HCILL protocol initialized [ 0.604288] Bluetooth: HCIATH3K protocol initialized [ 0.615125] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized [ 0.615129] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized [ 0.615132] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11 [ 0.615136] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3 [ 0.615138] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast [ 0.615141] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized [ 0.615144] Bluetooth: HIDP (Human Interface Emulation) ver 1.2 [ 0.615146] Bluetooth: HIDP socket layer initialized [ 1.358547] Bluetooth: Patch file not found ar3k/AthrBT_0x00000200.dfu [ 1.358548] Bluetooth: Loading patch file failed I did a search for this issue and only found other bugs indicating that this should be reported upstream: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1451689 A mailing list message: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg135868.html And a possible duplicate: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg135869.html My /proc/version: Linux version 4.0.0-wl-ath+ (root@catelyn) (gcc version 4.8.4 (Gentoo 4.8.4 p1.5, pie-0.6.1) ) #14 SMP Thu May 7 18:26:16 AEST 2015 I am running the ath+ branch because my Wi-Fi will not work on the current kernel (attempted linux-4.0.4-gentoo and Wi-Fi failed to load firmware, bluetooth had exact same message in kernel logs as reported above). I'm running commit 4b9abafd of the kvalo/ath fork with the atk10k firmware files from my own sumdog/ath10k-firmware fork. Will reboot later and get the dmesg from 4.0.4 as well. I have also tried building ath3k as a module, blacklisting it on boot and loading it manually and I still get the same result (firmware error), so it doesn't appear to be the xHCI issue (the 4.0.0-wl-ath+ branch I'm running seems to have the xHCI patch in it).
Created attachment 179101 [details] dmesg output from linux-4.0.5-gentoo
In addition, here is the device listing in /sys/kernel/debug/usb/devices: T: Bus=03 Lev=02 Prnt=02 Port=02 Cnt=01 Dev#= 3 Spd=12 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=e0(wlcon) Sub=01 Prot=01 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=0cf3 ProdID=3004 Rev= 0.01 C:* #Ifs= 2 Cfg#= 1 Atr=e0 MxPwr=100mA I:* If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=e0(wlcon) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=(none) E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 16 Ivl=1ms E: Ad=82(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms E: Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms I:* If#= 1 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=e0(wlcon) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=(none) E: Ad=83(I) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS= 0 Ivl=1ms E: Ad=03(O) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS= 0 Ivl=1ms I: If#= 1 Alt= 1 #EPs= 2 Cls=e0(wlcon) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=(none) E: Ad=83(I) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS= 9 Ivl=1ms E: Ad=03(O) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS= 9 Ivl=1ms I: If#= 1 Alt= 2 #EPs= 2 Cls=e0(wlcon) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=(none) E: Ad=83(I) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS= 17 Ivl=1ms E: Ad=03(O) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS= 17 Ivl=1ms I: If#= 1 Alt= 3 #EPs= 2 Cls=e0(wlcon) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=(none) E: Ad=83(I) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS= 25 Ivl=1ms E: Ad=03(O) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS= 25 Ivl=1ms I: If#= 1 Alt= 4 #EPs= 2 Cls=e0(wlcon) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=(none) E: Ad=83(I) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS= 33 Ivl=1ms E: Ad=03(O) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS= 33 Ivl=1ms I: If#= 1 Alt= 5 #EPs= 2 Cls=e0(wlcon) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=(none) E: Ad=83(I) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS= 49 Ivl=1ms E: Ad=03(O) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS= 49 Ivl=1ms
Exact same issue here with 4.2.0-rc6 on an alienware 17 r2 sporting the very same bt hw.
Still issue using 4.2.0-18-generic [ 8.720655] usb 3-1.3: Direct firmware load for ar3k/AthrBT_0x00000200.dfu failed with error -2 [ 8.720659] Bluetooth: Patch file not found ar3k/AthrBT_0x00000200.dfu [ 8.720661] Bluetooth: Loading patch file failed [ 8.720666] ath3k: probe of 3-1.3:1.0 failed with error -2 [ 8.720691] usbcore: registered new interface driver ath3k
Still issue using 4.2.0-21-generic
There does not seem to be proper firmware support for the chip. According to mainline code, it should be loading firmware ar3k/AthrBT_0x01020200.dfu. But the firmware download times-out. Not sure whether setting "driver_info = BTUSB_QCA_ROME" as suggested in http://marc.info/?l=linux-bluetooth&m=144633933801493&w=2 would work either. The rom version returned by this chip is 0x1020200. This version is not present in qca_devices_table, which again will result in error. On 11/12/15 12:49, bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote: > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99371 > > --- Comment #5 from TyHo <tycho@mediaspectrum.nl> --- > Still issue using 4.2.0-21-generic >
I wish the bluetooth kernel mailing list had a nice mailman thread view so I could like to the massive thread about this (maybe it does and I just can't find it). Anyway, here was the last e-mail I sent about this: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.bluez.kernel/63192 and then I gave up and bought and external bluetooth dongle...which broke last week. So I finally replied to that e-mail. So according to that thread, I don't actually have an ath3k card. It's uses the same USB ID number, but it's actually a QCA Rome chipset. So that patch tries to get the kernel to ignore the ath3k match and instead load the QCA firmware. On my MSI WS-60, it loads the firmware, then fails when I try to run "power on" within the "bluetoothctl" command line app (same if I use hciconfig instead as started in a previous e-mail in that thread). [ 11.128970] Bluetooth: hci0: using rampatch file: qca/rampatch_usb_00000200.bin [ 11.128972] Bluetooth: hci0: QCA: patch rome 0x200 build 0x299, firmware rome 0x200 build 0x111 [ 11.184335] Bluetooth: hci0: using NVM file: qca/nvm_usb_00000200.bin [ 6886.445648] Bluetooth: hci0: using rampatch file: qca/rampatch_usb_00000200.bin [ 6886.445656] Bluetooth: hci0: QCA: patch rome 0x200 build 0x299, firmware rome 0x200 build 0x111 [ 6886.499929] Bluetooth: hci0: using NVM file: qca/nvm_usb_00000200.bin and after trying to turn it on: [10052.098236] Bluetooth: hci0: Failed to access otp area (-108) According to the label on the bottom of my laptop: RF Module inside: Qualcomm Atheros QCNFA34AC ...but I don't know if that's just the Wi-Fi or Wi-Fi+BT. (Wi-fi works fine in stock 4.3.0 with ath10k_pci)
Hi I have an Eurocom P5 with the same hardware and the fix provided in the previous link works perfectly. I join it here; Best Regards
Created attachment 197861 [details] patch for bluetooth with QCA6174 wifi on Eurocom P5
(In reply to ALexandre Maloteaux from comment #9) > Created attachment 197861 [details] > patch for bluetooth with QCA6174 wifi on Eurocom P5 could you please explain a bit more how to apply the patch? thank you