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USB Bluetooth adapter stops working after 10.8.5 upgrade

For several months I've been using an IOGear USB Bluetooth adapter and a USB KVM to share my Magic Trackpad between a Mac Mini and a MBP, both machines happily running 10.8.4.


Tonight I upgraded my MBP to 10.8.5 and now Bluetooth is apparently disabled when I have the USB adapter plugged in:


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Now I'm left with the unappealing decision of using my Trackpad with only my Mac Mini, my MBP, or constantly repairing it with either to share.


I've been shockingly happy with this little trick, but I guess it was too good to last. Anyone have any ideas why using a USB Bluetooth adapter would stop working? Maybe I need a different adapter now?

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8)

Posted on Sep 12, 2013 9:22 PM

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Sep 21, 2013 1:47 AM in response to Gervaso

This is the string that you can already find in the original kext:


<key>CSRUSBBluetoothHCIController</key>

<dict>

<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>

<string>com.apple.iokit.CSRBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport</string>

<key>IOClass</key>

<string>CSRBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport</string>

<key>IOProviderClass</key>

<string>IOUSBDevice</string>

<key>idProduct</key>

<integer>1</integer>

<key>idVendor</key>

<integer>2578</integer>

</dict>

It looks perfectly fine (idProduct and idVendor are correct), but still, it doesn't fix the problem. The device is seen as on (and the small blue LED on it blinks) but I can't seem to find any bluetooth device nor can I deactivate it.
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Oct 5, 2013 11:09 AM in response to AwwwPuddin

I've always been using the CN516 USB Bluetooth adapter from Sitecom, but bluetooth started to break when using 10.8.5. Tampering the info.plist for Cambridge Silicon like previous people here have done didn't work, so I decided to reinstall the combo update 10.8.5 and directly after that the suplemental 10.8.5 update. Then I deleted the com.apple.bluetooth.plist in Preferences. Reboot / Pair bluetooth devices...


Voila, I'm happily navigating with my trackpad and typing this message on my wireless bluetooth keyboard. Seems like things are back to normal...


Not sure yet if these connections will survive a reboot though :-)

Jul 29, 2014 8:58 AM in response to jaap254

After reading this thread, I'm hoping somebody can help with this issue. I have a BT Adapter: Belkin F8T065bf, Broadcom 2070 Chipset and am running OSX 10.9.2 (so I know this is the wrong forum now but it's the most relevant thread). The driver details are already in the info.plist file (so Apple presumably supports this device straight out of the box) but I still can't get the adaptor to work. My Mac is already using the internal bluetooth for devices such as my trackpad so I'm assuming that there isn't a conflict here? If so, how do I solve that problem? Any help is appreciated.

USB Bluetooth adapter stops working after 10.8.5 upgrade

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