It’s me… again 
Updating to Tumbleweed (so 3.0 kernel series) seems to break my Broadcom BCM43224 Bluetooth (WLAN is working fine). Again… can I have some direction please?
P.S. I didn’t know if I should have posted here or in the Networking section… is this the right place?
I didn’t compile any module from source, so am I interpreting your question right by answering “no”?
I’m using broadcom-wl driver (but issue is present with b43 too), so I blacklisted wl module by adding
blacklist wl
in /etc/modprobe.d/50-blacklist.conf; after a reboot doing a
lsmod | grep wl
shows no output but wireless functionality is still there… so maybe I should blacklist another module?
An update: I discovered that the problem is 3.0 kernel, since Bluetooth is fine (I just tried to discover a new device, but it works at least) just until I update to Tumbleweed. With 3.0 bluetooth icon disappears from the panel and the device is not recognized. Moreover, the correct model is BCM2046.
Any help?
You’re not alone, this is a commont problem with kernels 2.6.39+.
Since 11.4 is using 2.6.37 everything is working fine, but once you update to 2.6.39 icon diappears and bluetooth is “not recognized”, although ARAIR it is visible in devices.
I had the same exact problem with my old USB bluetooth dongle (SiW chipset).
I didn’t find a solution other than replacing it with other dongle (Cambridge chipset).
Fortunately it costed me less than $2, and new dongle is working fine.
What is more my old wifi card (Ralink RT73 chip) is having trobule running with recent kernels, I wonder whether linux is evolving or rather regressing 
Here is my story:
http://forums.opensuse.org/forums/english/get-technical-help-here/tumbleweed/460535-tumbleweed-kernel-2-6-39-bluetooth-problem.html
I submitted a bug in bugzilla https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=726330 although my hardware is different than yours. Thanks anyway.