darksurf@Darkwaters ~ $ sudo lspci Password: 00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge (rev 01) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge 00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller 00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller 00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller 00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 11) 00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller 00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge 00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge 00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) 00:14.6 Modem: ATI Technologies Inc SB400 AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 02) 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE) 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) 05:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) 05:09.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx21/x515 Cardbus Controller 05:09.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller 05:09.3 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx21 Integrated FlashMedia Controller 05:09.4 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Texas Instruments PCI6411/6421/6611/6621/7411/7421/7611/7621 Secure Digital Controller darksurf@Darkwaters ~ $ I'm using an IOGEAR bluetooth adapter $20. It is recognized as Broadcom 2045A here is the output darksurf@Darkwaters ~ $ sudo lsusb Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0a5c:2101 Broadcom Corp. Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 darksurf@Darkwaters ~ $ sudo hwinfo | grep 2045 info.product = 'BCM2045A' usb_device.product = 'BCM2045A' product = "BCM2045A" product = "BCM2045A" product = "BCM2045A" product = "BCM2045A" Model: "Broadcom BCM2045A" Device: usb 0x2101 "BCM2045A" I can finally detect devices using kbluetooth beta8. And it takes my bluetooth chip, but I can't get it to stay connected. Here is my dmesg output for bluetooth [ 1100.463067] usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2 [ 1100.532136] Device driver usbdev2.2_ep00 lacks bus and class support for being resumed. [ 1100.532146] usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [ 1100.532847] Device driver usbdev2.2_ep81 lacks bus and class support for being resumed. [ 1100.532870] Device driver usbdev2.2_ep82 lacks bus and class support for being resumed. [ 1100.532895] Device driver usbdev2.2_ep02 lacks bus and class support for being resumed. [ 1100.532947] Device driver usbdev2.2_ep83 lacks bus and class support for being resumed. [ 1100.532969] Device driver usbdev2.2_ep03 lacks bus and class support for being resumed. [ 1100.533020] Device driver usbdev2.2_ep84 lacks bus and class support for being resumed. [ 1100.533042] Device driver usbdev2.2_ep04 lacks bus and class support for being resumed. [ 1100.916100] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.11 [ 1100.916144] NET: Registered protocol family 31 [ 1100.916147] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized [ 1100.916150] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized [ 1100.922265] Bluetooth: HCI USB driver ver 2.9 [ 1100.923517] Device driver usbdev2.2_ep83 lacks bus and class support for being resumed. [ 1100.923768] Device driver usbdev2.2_ep03 lacks bus and class support for being resumed. [ 1100.923965] Device driver hci0 lacks bus and class support for being resumed. [ 1100.924048] usbcore: registered new interface driver hci_usb [ 1101.537059] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.8 [ 1101.537065] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized [ 1101.566881] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized [ 1101.567055] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized [ 1101.567060] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.8 [ 1135.122141] Device driver acl0019A12ACB2D lacks bus and class support for being resumed. [ 1140.078546] Device driver acl00164420053C lacks bus and class support for being resumed. [ 1174.027023] Device driver acl00164420053C lacks bus and class support for being resumed. [ 1177.535809] Device driver acl00164420053C lacks bus and class support for being resumed. [ 1450.296402] set_level status: 0 [ 1451.220066] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 1 devices found [ 1454.279665] ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'TKIP' [ 1454.319980] ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'CCMP' Thats it.