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[Software] help w/ drivers for a Kenginston K33348B USB 2.0 BT dongle

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[Software] help w/ drivers for a Kenginston K33348B USB 2.0 BT dongle

#1 Post by luap12321 »

Hello,

I have a very old Toshiba Satellite A135 laptop w/ a dual core Pentium, 2GB RAM, Intel 965 mobile chipset, which I bought brand-new. I'd also bought a Kensington K33348B USB 2.0 Bluetooth dongle and it worked fine, at least in its native Windows Vista environment. Eventually upgraded away from this laptop, it sat for years, but remarkably still works (I'm typing this forum post on it as I use my much-newer HP to confirm the dongle does actually work...new laptop is Win 10....which correctly ID's it as a Bluetooth dongle but has no drivers for it - but told me the chipset, Broadcom BCM92045B3 ROM).

So anyway, when I tried installing Windows 10 on the Toshiba, none of the drivers worked (despite Win 7 having been fully functional, although I'm not sure about this BT dongle). So after tinkering and many hours trying different distros, I settled on Debian 11 and have so far enjoyed it. However, while I can do intermediate-level troubleshooting in Windows....I'm rather lost in Debian, especially on an older and slower machine.

I found this https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupport ... Kensington which makes a claim that the dongle had drivers straight out of the box in Ubuntu 8.04 which I think is closely related to Debian? But Debian 11 didn't try to install these drivers, or any for that matter as near as I can tell? (sorry, I'm a Microsoft guy)

Also of note: I was born and raised in a DOS environment and as such am totally comfortable working in the command-line terminal.

I don't necessarily need the dongle as USB drives are much more prominent and affordable than they were 20 years ago, but, it would be cool to have that functionality and be able to use the dongle which otherwise has no use.

Any and all help is appreciated and welcome! Thank you in advance!

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Re: [Software] help w/ drivers for a Kenginston K33348B USB 2.0 BT dongle

#2 Post by Aki »

Hello,

According to [1] the Device 'Broadcom BCM92045B3 ROM' is supported by Debian Stable Kernel. You can follow the Debian Wiki [2] to try to troubleshoot it.

[1] https://linux-hardware.org/index.php?id=usb:0c10-0000
[2] https://wiki.debian.org/BluetoothUser
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