No Bluetooth Device Detected in hcitool dev
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Linux |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
bluez-utils (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
linux (Ubuntu) |
Incomplete
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
My TOSHIBA Satellite A100 has a built-in Bluetooth device (so I suppose this must be a PCI hw), and the wireless adapter has an external switch for turning on/off. The problem is that no device is found in "hcitool dev". I dont find anything related to Bluetooth in lspci. It sometimes works fine when I restart the system for ten times, but other times I can't get it to work, no matter how many times I restart the Bluetooth daemon or turn it off and on again. It works absolutely fine in Win XP. I also get no results from hciconfig, however the following lines are present in dmesg when the system starts up
[ 21.100000] Failure registering capabilities with primary security module.
[ 21.280000] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.11
[ 21.280000] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[ 21.280000] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 21.280000] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 21.292000] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.8
[ 21.292000] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 21.340000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[ 21.340000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[ 21.340000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.8
description: | updated |
Changed in bluez-utils (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → Invalid |
affects: | bluez (Ubuntu) → linux (Ubuntu) |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → Confirmed |
I finally got my bluetooth working. This model of TOSHIBA has a BIOS from Phoenix, so "toshset" cannot be used. The wireless bluetooth adapters are turned off at each power-on self test (POST). In windows turning on the bluetooth adapter is done using hotkeys Fn + F8, as long as hotkeys are not supported in Linux (for models featuring Phoenix BIOS) there is no way to turn it on. So you end up using "omnibook", a package which provides Linux kernel support for TOSHIBA and HP laptops. The package and related documents can be found at http:// omnibook. sourceforge. net/doku. php.There is also a supported models list available. A step-by-step installation guide is available at http:// ubuntuforums. org/showthread. php?t=316358. The interesting point is that if you are lucky enough you might even have other features enabled such as hotkeys, lcd brightness adjustment, cpu temprature, etc.