Comment 290 for bug 268502

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the problem persists here as well. Please note that there is a bug in linux-firmware-nonfree. In order to get even this far, I had to manually symlink /lib/firmware/bcm2033-fw.bin and /lib/firmware/bcm2033-md.hex to BCM2033-FW.bin and BCM2033-MD.hex. Separate bug, separate issue, but just the same, if you're attempting to reproduce my results, that's something to keep in mind. This also required that I install bluez-compat. The hci device never gets created otherwise:

[260752.445568] Bluetooth: Broadcom Blutonium firmware driver ver 1.2
[260752.445600] usb 1-5.4: firmware: requesting BCM2033-MD.hex
[260752.461661] usb 1-5.4: firmware: requesting BCM2033-FW.bin
[260752.464100] usbcore: registered new interface driver bcm203x
[260753.012646] usb 1-5.4: USB disconnect, address 8
[260753.270167] usb 1-5.4: new full speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 9
[260753.411283] usb 1-5.4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[260753.757933] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.14
[260753.757935] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[260753.810302] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[260753.810305] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[260753.852462] Bridge firewalling registered
[260753.937918] Bluetooth: SCO (Voice Link) ver 0.6
[260753.937920] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[260754.182674] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[260754.182690] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[260754.182692] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11
[260793.491079] hci_cmd_task: hci0 command tx timeout
[260842.812029] hci_cmd_task: hci0 command tx timeout
[260871.528140] hci_cmd_task: hci0 command tx timeout
[260895.742432] hci_cmd_task: hci0 command tx timeout
root@shadwickt-desk:/usr/lib/bluetooth/plugins# hciconfig -a
hci0: Type: USB
 BD Address: 00:40:05:D0:C1:AF ACL MTU: 377:10 SCO MTU: 16:0
 UP RUNNING
 RX bytes:664 acl:0 sco:0 events:18 errors:0
 TX bytes:98 acl:0 sco:0 commands:23 errors:0
 Features: 0xff 0xfd 0x05 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
 Packet type: DM1 DM3 DM5 DH1 DH3 DH5 HV1 HV2 HV3
 Link policy:
 Link mode: SLAVE ACCEPT
Can't read local name on hci0: Connection timed out (110)
root@shadwickt-desk:/usr/lib/bluetooth/plugins# hciutil dev
hciutil: command not found
root@shadwickt-desk:/usr/lib/bluetooth/plugins# hcitool dev
Devices:
 hci0 00:40:05:D0:C1:AF
root@shadwickt-desk:/usr/lib/bluetooth/plugins# lsusb | grep -i blue
Bus 001 Device 009: ID 0a5c:2001 Broadcom Corp. Bluetooth Device