On Mon, 2015-10-26 at 13:50 -0600, Greg Woods wrote:
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan <
pocallaghan(a)gmail.com
> wrote:
> I just wonder why my logs show repeated problems
> loading the driver (going back months) but nevertheless the old
> dongle
> seemed to work until now.
>
If you have a USB dongle, then the devices using that dongle are not
Bluetooth devices as far as your system is concerned, they are USB
devices, so they would not need or use the system's Bluetooth driver.
The Bluetooth driver is only needed if your system has a hardware
Bluetooth device in it and you are using that to connect your
peripherals.
Then why do my BT devices (mouse, headphones, an external speaker
system) show up under the BT settings dialogue? OTOH the separate
wireless mouse/kb dongle I mentioned *is* a USB device as far as the
system is concerned, but that's another matter.
poc