Well it wasn't exactly wasted time, I got to explore the code stack very completely trying to figure out why the radio didn't want to work.
Of course when I plugged in the new one today and it "just worked"...
I survived the flooding on the way home and I now sit down to try and bond dongle to keyboard. I've never used BlueZ before so this should be entertaining, especially when you go to their web site and they tell you that the manuals are waste of time to read. And most of the FAQ's they send you to use phrases like "I don't remember how I got it to work"
