Broadcom BCM2046B1 in HCI mode?

[Maksim Yevmenkin]

On Tuesday, June 21, 2011, Brandon Gooch <jamesbrandongooch at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have one of these in my notebook:
>
> uhub4: <Broadcom BCM2046B1, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 5> on usbus0
>
> This is a bluetooth device in HID mode, but I'd like to switch it to
> HCI mode. I found the following in rc.conf(5):
>
>      ubthidhci_enable
>                  (bool) If set to ``YES'', change the USB Bluetooth controller
>                  from HID mode to HCI mode.  You also need to specify the
>                  location of USB Bluetooth controller with the
>                  ubthidhci_busnum and ubthidhci_addr variables.
>
>      ubthidhci_busnum
>                  Bus number where the USB Bluetooth controller is located.
>                  Check the output of usbconfig(8) on your system to find this
>                  information.
>
>      ubthidhci_addr
>                  Bus address of the USB Bluetooth controller.  Check the out-
>                  put of usbconfig(8) on your system to find this information.
>
> So I added the appropriate directives to /etc/rc.conf, to no avail:
>
> ubthidhci_enable="YES"
> ubthidhci_busnum="0"
> ubthidhci_addr="5"
>
> This basically calls usbconfig(8) at system start-up in the following way:
>
> /usr/sbin/usbconfig -u 0 -a 5 do_request 0x40 0 0 0 0 > /dev/null 2>&1
>
> Running this command manually, I see this output:
>
> REQUEST = <ERROR>
>
> ...which I've read as potentially being OK, as the operation still may
> have successfully completed -- it hasn't :(
>
> So, has anyone had any luck using this rc.conf(5) directive, or does
> anyone on this list have a modified usbconfig(8) command that may help
> me coax HCI from this device?


Switching device between hid and hci modes is s something that is
device / manufacturer specific. It could be that this particular
device need different request or something like that. I would suggest
to look at linux tool called hid2hci. It has support for different
devices from different manufacturers.

Thanks,
Max