Bug#525220: Bluetooth problem caused by fake dongles?
--- On Tue, 21/6/11, Alexander Heinz <mailsanmich@gmx.li> wrote:
> I also have a problem with Bluetooth. I have recently
> bought a new USB dongle in the store (instead of on ebay)
> that does not seem to have this problem. The funny thing is
> that the USB IDs are identical, so the two devices claim to
> be identical as well.
>
> What also makes me wonder is the fact the MAC address of my
> dongle does not seem to be unique. I have several dongles,
> all of them have the address 00:1F:81:00:01:1C. Google for
> it and you will find more people that have dongles with the
> same address.
Yeah. Mine has that address. I bought a batch of them, so I will check the others. I planned to use them on several computers in the same building, so I hope that duplicate mac addresses is not going to be a problem.
> Is it possible that all of us have bought counterfeit
> dongles?
My mobile phone showed up as present on one of the release candidate kernels, so mine is not fake.
We could always borrow a friends laptop that runs Micros~1youknowwhat and test the dongles for operation.
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