Internal laptop bluetooth device not detected on dell Inspiron 1545

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Are you dual booting this system? Is the device enabled in Windows? It seems a high percentage of the Dell bluetooth adapters must not be disabled in Windows for them to function in Linux.

Yes, I am dual booting. I booted back into windows to ensure bluetooth is turned on, and its still not recognized. I am running Jaunty Alpha 6 64-bit now, btw (no change - still not detected).

I seem to have gotten the internal bluetooth adapter working on my laptop. Initially, I could not get my laptop to find the phone. However, I did finally get my phone to find the laptop using the kde bluetooth controlling software. This bug can be closed.

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Thank you and have a nice day...

This bug report is being closed due to your last comment regarding this being fixed.

Although this bug report is closed, I want to say that I have a Dell Inspiron 1545 with Broadcom Bluetooth device not detected. I installed kbluetooth4 as kdawgud said, but in my case I had no luck. The dev is not detected:

$ sudo hid2hci
Switching device 413c:8162 to HCI mode was successful

$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 002: ID 04d9:0499 Holtek Semiconductor, Inc.
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 05ca:180a Ricoh Co., Ltd
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:0158 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Mass Stroage Device
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 004: ID 413c:8162 Dell Computer Corp.
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 413c:8161 Dell Computer Corp.
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0a5c:4500 Broadcom Corp.
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

It's not there. However, the kernel knows about it:

$ dmesg | grep Bluetooth
[ 0.596009] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.13
[ 0.596020] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 0.596020] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 3.293890] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.11
[ 3.293892] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 3.293894] Bluetooth: SCO (Voice Link) ver 0.6
[ 3.293896] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[ 3.293930] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[ 3.293937] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[ 3.293938] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.10
[ 15.255648] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[ 15.255652] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast

Forgot to say that I am using Ubuntu Jaunty:

$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 9.04 \n \l
$ uname -a
Linux XENA 2.6.28-15-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP Tue Aug 18 18:40:08 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

Thanks for the updates! I reopened the bug since it seems to be there. I don't know that platform so, I cannot say wheter is in the usb/hal/u-dev or in the kernel... Marked it as new, perhaps someone can check it more closely...

With Ubuntu 9.04 the hid2hci command should automatically be handling this. Make sure you have the latest bluez updates, and then try to run

$ sudo hid2hci --tohci

You should hopefully have the device on the bus after that.

Make sure bluez is fully updated and then run this command:

$sudo hid2hci --tohci

See if the device is on your bus after that.

@Mario
I checked and bluez is installed with the latest update. Then I sudo hid2hci as you suggested. Then I did sudo lsusb and the output does not indicate any Bluetooth device:

sudo hid2hci --tohci
Switching device 413c:8162 to HCI mode was successful
celita@XENA:~$ sudo lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 002: ID 04d9:0499 Holtek Semiconductor, Inc.
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 05ca:180a Ricoh Co., Ltd
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:0158 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Mass Stroage Device
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 004: ID 413c:8162 Dell Computer Corp.
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 413c:8161 Dell Computer Corp.
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0a5c:4500 Broadcom Corp.
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

My laptop bluetooth device is not detecting any other Bluetooth pair device elsewhere...

This is what I get from dmesg:

$ sudo dmesg | grep Bluetooth
[ 0.600009] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.13
[ 0.600020] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 0.600020] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 3.337895] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.11
[ 3.337896] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 3.337899] Bluetooth: SCO (Voice Link) ver 0.6
[ 3.337900] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[ 3.337935] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[ 3.337941] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[ 3.337943] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.10
[ 15.166854] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[ 15.166857] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast

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