I can also confirm that bluez 4.40 fixed my bluetooth after months of not working (9.04 AMD64 with latest kernel). All I did was follow Dominique's instructions above and used 'amd64' instead of 'i386'.
lsusb: Bus 001 Device 008: ID 047d:105d Kensington PocketMouse Bluetooth Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0a5c:3535 Broadcom Corp. (Yes, I show 2 BT devices with one dongle. No idea why.) -- Bluetooth doesn't work (hci_cmd_task: hci0 command tx timeout) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/268502 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs