Strange bluetooth problem dell inspiron 1545 laptop

Question

Hello friends, I've got a full working install of arch on my dell inspiron 1545 laptop. At first, bluetooth was working with the blueman-applet. After an upgrade to bluez(i suppose), it suddenly stopped working. The laptop bluetooth is on, the device is discoverable, it even successfully recognizes the phone I'm trying to pair. But earlier, it was showing the phones name but now it only shows the mac address in blueman and in "hcitool scan" output, it shows:
hcitool scan
Scanning ...
00:1B:EE:16:63:5E n/a
I've got the following bluetooth services running:
bluetoothd hidd rfcomm
Here my /etc/rc.d/bluetooth file:
#!/bin/bash
# Start/stop the Bluetooth daemons
. /etc/rc.conf
. /etc/rc.d/functions
DAEMON_NAME="bluetoothd"
HIDD_NAME="hidd"
RFCOMM_NAME="rfcomm"
PAND_NAME="pand"
DUND_NAME="dund"
DAEMON_EXEC="/usr/sbin/bluetoothd"
HIDD_EXEC="/usr/bin/hidd"
RFCOMM_EXEC="/usr/bin/rfcomm"
PAND_EXEC="/usr/bin/pand"
DUND_EXEC="/usr/bin/dund"
DAEMON_ENABLE="true"
HIDD_ENABLE="false"
RFCOMM_ENABLE="false"
DUND_ENABLE="false"
PAND_ENABLE="false"
RFCOMM_CONFIG="/etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf"
HIDD_OPTIONS=""
DUND_OPTIONS=""
PAND_OPTIONS=""
[ -f /etc/conf.d/bluetooth ] && . /etc/conf.d/bluetooth
case "$1" in
start)
stat_busy "Starting bluetooth subsystem:"
if [ "$DAEMON_ENABLE" = "true" -a -x "$DAEMON_EXEC" ] ; then
stat_append " $DAEMON_NAME"
$DAEMON_EXEC
sleep 1
fi
if [ "$SDPD_ENABLE" = "true" -a -x "$SDPD_EXEC" ] ; then
stat_append " $SDPD_NAME"
$SDPD_EXEC
fi
if [ "$HIDD_ENABLE" = "true" -a -x "$HIDD_EXEC" ]; then
stat_append " $HIDD_NAME"
$HIDD_EXEC $HIDD_OPTIONS --server
fi
if [ "$RFCOMM_ENABLE" = "true" -a -x "$RFCOMM_EXEC" -a -f "$RFCOMM_CONFIG" ]; then
stat_append " $RFCOMM_NAME"
$RFCOMM_EXEC -f $RFCOMM_CONFIG bind all
fi
if [ "$DUND_ENABLE" = "true" -a -x "$DUND_EXEC" -a -n "$DUND_OPTIONS" ]; then
stat_append " $DUND_NAME"
$DUND_EXEC $DUND_OPTIONS
fi
if [ "$PAND_ENABLE" = "true" -a -x "$PAND_EXEC" -a -n "$PAND_OPTIONS" ]; then
stat_append " $PAND_NAME"
$PAND_EXEC $PAND_OPTIONS
fi
add_daemon bluetooth
stat_done
stop)
stat_busy "Stopping bluetooth subsystem:"
stat_append " $PAND_NAME"
killall $PAND_NAME >/dev/null 2>&1
stat_append " $DUND_NAME"
killall $DUND_NAME >/dev/null 2>&1
if [ -x "$RFCOMM_EXEC" ]; then
stat_append " $RFCOMM_NAME"
$RFCOMM_EXEC release all >/dev/null 2>&1
fi
stat_append " $HIDD_NAME"
killall $HIDD_NAME >/dev/null 2>&1
stat_append " $SDPD_NAME"
killall $SDPD_NAME >/dev/null 2>&1
stat_append " $DAEMON_NAME"
killall $DAEMON_NAME >/dev/null 2>&1
rm_daemon bluetooth
stat_done
restart)
$0 stop
sleep 1
$0 start
echo "usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
esac
exit 0
Here goes the /etc/conf.d/bluetooth file
# Bluetooth configuraton file
# Bluetooth services (allowed values are "true" and "false")
# Run the bluetoothd daemon (default: true)
#DAEMON_ENABLE="false"
# Run the sdp daemon (default: false)
# If this is disabled, hcid's internal sdp daemon will be used
#SDPD_ENABLE="true"
# Run the bluetooth HID daemon (default: false)
HIDD_ENABLE="true"
# Activate rfcomm ports (default: false)
RFCOMM_ENABLE="true"
# Run bluetooth dial-up networking daemon (default: false)
DUND_ENABLE="true"
# Run bluetooth PAN daemon (default: false)
PAND_ENABLE="true"
# rfcomm configuration file (default: /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf)
#RFCOMM_CONFIG="/etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf"
# Options for hidd, dund and pand (default: none)
#HIDD_OPTIONS=""
#DUND_OPTIONS=""
#PAND_OPTIONS=""
DAEMON_ENABLE="true"
HID2HCI_ENABLE="true"
The output of lsusb | grep -i bluetooth
Bus 003 Device 014: ID 0a5c:4500 Broadcom Corp. BCM2046B1 USB 2.0 Hub (part of BCM2046 Bluetooth)
Output of dmesg | grep -i bluetooth
Bluetooth: Core ver 2.15
Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.14
Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
Bluetooth: SCO (Voice Link) ver 0.6
Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: HIDP (Human Interface Emulation) ver 1.2
Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11
Bluetooth: Generic Bluetooth USB driver ver 0.6
any help regarding the problem is highly appreciated.
[Edit] I tried doing /lib/udev/hid2hci(weird location i guess), but its asking me to enter sys device path which I've absolutely no idea of.
Last edited by pratik_narain (2010-07-23 03:54:49)

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Bumping in hope for a reply