ps3-utils

is packaged and uploaded now, and will be in debian after making it through the initial processing of NEW. i ended up using the ubuntu ps3pf-utils package as the starting point, as it was the most recent package and was in reasonably good shape.

for tracking purposes: the here is the original ITP, and i've made the packaging generally available at an initial git repo for ps3-utils. if more people get interested/involved this location might change of to something more "official" looking.

bluetooth

i stumbled across another odd behaviour between the ps3 "game OS" and linux. it seems that if you have bluetooth daemons running under linux, your controllers will be disabled the next time you boot into the "game OS". i asked on a ps3/cell related mailing list that i recently joined, and got a confirmation that this was a problem. the suggested workaround at the moment is to disable the bluetooth daemons in linux while they find out what the problem is. i've also found that rebooting the ps3 an extra time from game OS to game OS again seems to resolve the problem (or maybe it fixes itself after a short while, i'm not entirely sure, but have eventually been able to use the controllers again).