Bluetooth Via Usb?

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I would be eternally grateful if someone could help in getting an IOGEAR GBU211 USB Bluetooth dongle recognized and configured for the Opie Bluetooth Manager (in 3.5.4). So far I have managed to install the proper packages from asm-nai's feed for USB host, but am not sure what else is needed to set up the bluetooth adapter. The dongle has a blue light which turns on when plugged in, so I know it is getting power; dmesg then shows "a new full speed USB device using pxa27x-ohci and address 2"

Based on this document, the GBU211 should be supported under BlueZ (all the IOGEAR adapters use the same Broadcom chipset)

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The IOGEAR GBU211 uses the Broadcom Bluetonium 2035 chipset, which according to the BlueZ site requires a firmware download to work. I have now installed the kernel-modules-bcm203x-2.6 package. Once I modprobe hci_usb and bcm203x, hcifonfig will shows my USB bluetooth adapter's info. I can also find my phone with hcitool.

However, I still do not know how to set up the bluetooth adapter for use with Opie's Bluetooth Manager GUI. How do I determine the rfcomm and channel numbers? Bluetooth Manager is rejecting any values I enter into the Rfcomm Bind table (the table is blank when next viewed). Perhaps Opie's Bluetooth Manager is non-fuctional at this point, as it is newly added with the 3.5.4 release-candidate.