Enabling Bluetooth for P8P67 * boards and BT-211

[Eastwind]

Re: [Solved] Enabling Bluetooth on P8P67 * boards

Thank you for that! I'll try it tonight!

EDIT: Mystery solved. The ASUS P8P67-M Pro doesn't have Bluetooth onboard!

My little cheap BT thing doesn't work, hence, my issues. I need to buy a BT thingy now.

EDIT II: D-Link DWL-120 works perfectly with the Magic Mouse.

 

[Eastwind]

Re: [Solved] Enabling Bluetooth on P8P67 * boards

I wish I waited, as those are tiny and cheap on Ebay. I spent a bit more, but I really liked the compact size. Oh, well the D-Link performs really well.

 

[mjgunn]

Re: [Solved] Enabling Bluetooth on P8P67 * boards

I bought the Best Buy's Rocketfish Bluetooth mini dongle on eBay for $4.99 and it works perfectly. You don't even need any kext or drivers. It recognizes the Magic Mouse, Wireless Keyboard, and Trackpad and no glitches whatsoever.

Strongly recommend if you don't want to mess with the kext files.

Does that one work in the bios/chameleon?

 

[drcrack]

Re: [Solved] Enabling Bluetooth on P8P67 * boards

Does that one work in the bios/chameleon?

BIOS nor Chameleon do not support BT keyboard or mouse, regardless of Bluetooth chip manufacturer.

 

[Stork]

Re: [Solved] Enabling Bluetooth on P8P67 * boards

Does the D-Link and Best Buy BT dongles show a checkable box for "Allow Bluetooth devices to wake this computer" in the System Preferences > Bluetooth > Advanced window?

 

[Grawl]

Re: [Solved] Enabling Bluetooth on P8P67 * boards

Yeah, it working!
I did it with page 1 post 1 and archive on page 3 post 5

 

[dhy8386]

Re: [Solved] Enabling Bluetooth on P8P67 * boards

As an FYI bought the IOgear mini BT dongle from B&H for 12.00. Works great oob.

 

[NHiX]

Re: [Solved] Enabling Bluetooth on P8P67 * boards

Thanks for your guide, bluetooth on my P8P67Deluxe work perfect with it

 

[Eastwind]

Re: [Solved] Enabling Bluetooth on P8P67 * boards

Does the D-Link and Best Buy BT dongles show a checkable box for "Allow Bluetooth devices to wake this computer" in the System Preferences > Bluetooth > Advanced window?

No, it's not checkable. This is with the DWL-122.

 

[alexanderzhang]

Re: Enabling Bluetooth on P8P67 * boards

Finally, here's a usable program to enable bluetooth on P8P67.

How to install:
1) Download
2) Run terminal and change dir to your Downloads directory:

cd ~/Downloads

3) Unpack

tar zxf ath3k-firmware-uploader.tgz

4) Go to unpacked directory

cd ath3k-firmware-uploader

5) Install (will require admin rights)

sudo ./install

6) Shutdown, do power-off, power-on, and enjoy native bluetooth right from the start


This package installs to /Extra/ath3k-firmware-uploader, also it installs launchctl config to /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/local.ath3k-firmware-uploader.plist and registers it with launchctl.

Feedback and testing on other P8P67 modifications (Pro, Deluxe) is welcome.

Hi drcrack
I have a ar3011 with vid 0x0930 & pid 0x0215
how can i use your mod?
Would you please make a uploader for me? Thx