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After upgrade to 13.10 my bluetooth stoped to work:
- I don't see bluetooth indicator at all
- I am not able to turn it on and serch for devices

I've already checked some fixes like
- instaled fixed a bazaar fork indicator-bluetooth
- added my user to bluetooth group

Below are some outputs that show my config / issues

$ dmesg | grep -i bluetooth
[ 2.732391] usb 5-2: Product: Bluetooth V2.0 Dongle
[ 2.732394] usb 5-2: Manufacturer: Bluetooth v2.0
[ 2.758748] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.16
[ 2.758786] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 2.758797] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 2.758800] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 2.758805] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[ 8.178551] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[ 8.178556] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[ 8.178567] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
[ 8.210172] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[ 8.210187] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[ 8.210189] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11

** list of usb devices

$ lsusb 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 003: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 04f2:0833 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd 
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 046d:c018 Logitech, Inc. Optical Wheel Mouse
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

** installed bluetooth packages

$ dpkg -l | grep -i blue
ii blueman 1.23+update1-2ubuntu1 amd64 Graphical bluetooth manager
ii bluewho 0.1-1 all notifies new discovered bluetooth devices
ii bluez 4.101-0ubuntu8b1 amd64 Bluetooth tools and daemons
ii bluez-compat 4.101-0ubuntu8b1 amd64 BlueZ 3.x compatibility binaries
ii bluez-cups 4.101-0ubuntu8b1 amd64 Bluetooth printer driver for CUPS
ii bluez-hcidump 2.5-1 amd64 Analyses Bluetooth HCI packets
ii bluez-tools 0.1.38+git662e-3 amd64 Set of tools to manage Bluetooth devices for linux
ii gir1.2-gnomebluetooth-1.0 3.8.1-2ubuntu2 amd64 Introspection data for GnomeBluetooth
ii gnome-bluetooth 3.8.1-2ubuntu2 amd64 GNOME Bluetooth tools
ii indicator-bluetooth 0.0.6daily13.02.19-0ubuntu1 amd64 System bluetooth indicator.
ii libbluetooth3:amd64 4.101-0ubuntu8b1 amd64 Library to use the BlueZ Linux Bluetooth stack
ii libgnome-bluetooth-dev 3.8.1-2ubuntu2 amd64 GNOME Bluetooth tools - support library development files
ii libgnome-bluetooth11 3.8.1-2ubuntu2 amd64 GNOME Bluetooth tools - support library
ii pulseaudio-module-bluetooth 1:4.0-0ubuntu6 amd64 Bluetooth module for PulseAudio sound server
ii python-bluez 0.18-2 amd64 Python wrappers around BlueZ for rapid bluetooth development

** not able to set it as UP

$ hciconfig -a
hci0: Type: BR/EDR Bus: USB
 BD Address: 00:1B:10:00:11:DC ACL MTU: 1017:8 SCO MTU: 64:0
 DOWN 
 RX bytes:457 acl:0 sco:0 events:16 errors:0
 TX bytes:68 acl:0 sco:0 commands:16 errors:0
 Features: 0xff 0xff 0x8d 0xfe 0x9b 0xf9 0x00 0x80
 Packet type: DM1 DM3 DM5 DH1 DH3 DH5 HV1 HV2 HV3 
 Link policy: 
 Link mode: SLAVE ACCEPT 


$ sudo hciconfig hci0 up
Can't init device hci0: Operation not supported (95)

$ hcitool scan
Device is not available: No such device

$ rfkill list 
0: hci0: Bluetooth
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no

** loaded modules:

$ lsmod 
Module Size Used by
rfcomm 69070 0 
bnep 19564 2 
binfmt_misc 17468 1 
nls_iso8859_1 12713 1 
vesafb 13828 1 
btusb 28267 0 
bluetooth 371874 12 bnep,btusb,rfcomm
nvidia 10675220 49 
coretemp 13435 0 
kvm_intel 138538 0 
kvm 431315 1 kvm_intel
hid_generic 12548 0 
gpio_ich 13476 0 
ppdev 17671 0 
usbhid 53014 0 
hid 101512 2 hid_generic,usbhid
microcode 23518 0 
lpc_ich 21080 0 
serio_raw 13413 0 
snd_hda_codec_realtek 51465 1 
snd_hda_intel 48171 3 
parport_pc 32701 1 
snd_hda_codec 188738 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 13602 1 snd_hda_codec
mac_hid 13205 0 
snd_pcm 102033 2 snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
drm 296739 2 nvidia
snd_page_alloc 18710 2 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel
snd_seq_midi 13324 0 
snd_seq_midi_event 14899 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_rawmidi 30095 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 61560 2 snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_device 14497 3 snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_midi
snd_timer 29433 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd 69141 16 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_hda_codec,snd_h da_intel,snd_seq_device,snd_seq_midi
soundcore 12680 1 snd
lp 17759 0 
parport 42299 3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc
floppy 69370 0 
r8169 67341 0 
mii 13934 1 r8169


$ ps axu | grep -i blue | grep -v grep
root 723 0.0 0.0 19264 1720 ? Ss 16:10 0:00 /usr/sbin/bluetoothd
myuser 1571 0.0 0.1 448968 5604 ? Sl 16:10 0:00 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/indicator-bluetooth/indicator-bluetooth-service

** /etc/bluetooth/main.conf without comments:

$ grep -v '#' /etc/bluetooth/main.conf | grep .
[General]
Name = %h-%d
Class = 0x000100
DiscoverableTimeout = 0
PairableTimeout = 0
PageTimeout = 8192
AutoConnectTimeout = 60
InitiallyPowered = true
RememberPowered = true
ReverseServiceDiscovery = true
NameResolving = true
DebugKeys = false
EnableGatt = false

All advices will be appreciated.

This problem is described as Bug 60824 in Bugzilla.

You will find a patch in this thread:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=107379

This patch is not yet available in official Ubuntu releases.

In order to get the dongle work before it is made official, you have to rebuild the Ubuntu kernel.

Here is an How To:

• Save the patch in ~/Patch_Bluetooth.txt


• 
  

  Get the sources of the Ubuntu kernel (the ones of saucy version i.e. 13.10)

  
  
  

  cd ~
  git clone git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-saucy.git
  

  
  


• 
  

  Apply the patch to the kernel sources

  
  
  

  cd ~/ubuntu-saucy
  patch -p1 < ~/Patch_Bluetooth.txt
  

  
  


• 
  

  If you never built a Kernel before, install the following tools.

  
  
  

  sudo apt-get build-dep linux-image-$(uname -r)
  

  
  


• 
  

  It is now time to launch the kernel compilation.

  
  
  

  cd ~/ubuntu-saucy
  fakeroot debian/rules clean
  fakeroot debian/rules binary-headers binary-generic
  

  
  
  

  At the end of this process, you should have produced some .deb file in ~/ directory.

  
  


• 
  

  Use the new kernel for boot.

  
  
  

  cd ~
  sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-3.11.0-19*.deb linux-image-extra-3.11.0-19-generic_3.11.0-19.33_amd64.deb
  

  
  



• Restart your computer.

You should now see the bluetooth indicator and detect bluetooth devices.

I have exactly the same problem (same dongle, same Ubuntu version, same configuration files, same command outputs ...).

The only information concerning this dongle compatibility is from ubuntu wiki :

Works out-of-the-box in Ubuntu v10.04 ~ 11.04 Stopped working reliably in 11.10, frequent kernel panics and other general not good stuff, [Bug: 901770]

$ lsusb Bus 007 Device 003: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)

$ hciconfig -a hci0 Manufacturer: Cambridge Silicon Radio (10)

Might need same fix as Belkin : add blacklist hci_usb to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf, and add hci_usb reset=1 to /etc/modules

I tried the "Belkin fix" with no success, but maybe it will work for your dongle on Ubuntu 13.10.