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agente47

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Registered: 2007-10-23

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[SOLVED] bluetooth not working on toshiba laptop

I'm trying to make the bluetooth working, but I can't,  when I make

hciconfig -a

I take no response.
thats the ouptut of dmesg

[simon@toshi ~]$ dmesg | grep -i blue
Bluetooth: Core ver 2.11
Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.8
Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.8
Bluetooth: HCI USB driver ver 2.9
Bluetooth: SCO (Voice Link) ver 0.5
Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized

my lshwd

[simon@toshi ~]$ lshwd
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp.|Mobile Memory Controller Hub (intel-agp)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp.|Mobile PCI Express Graphics Port (unknown)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corp.|I/O Controller Hub High Definition Audio (snd-hda-intel)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp.|I/O Controller Hub PCI Express Port 1 (unknown)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corp.|I/O Controller Hub PCI Express Port 2 (unknown)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corp.|I/O Controller Hub PCI Express Port 3 (unknown)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp.|I/O Controller Hub UHCI USB #1 (unknown)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp.|I/O Controller Hub UHCI USB #2 (unknown)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp.|I/O Controller Hub UHCI USB #3 (unknown)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp.|I/O Controller Hub UHCI USB #4 (unknown)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp.|I/O Controller Hub EHCI USB (unknown)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp.|82801 Hub Interface to PCI Bridge (hw_random)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp.|Mobile I/O Controller Hub LPC (i8xx_tco)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp.|Mobile I/O Controller Hub SATA cc=IDE (ata_piix)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp.|I/O Controller Hub SMBus (i2c-i801)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corp.|Quadro NVS 110M / GeForce Go 7300 (vesa)
04:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation|PRO/Wireless 3945ABG (ipw3945)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation|PRO/Wireless 3945ABG (unknown)
06:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments|PCIxx12 CardBus Controller (yenta_socket)
06:04.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments|PCIxx12 CardBus Controller (unknown)
06:04.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments|5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD) (unknown)
06:04.3 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Texas Instruments|5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD) (unknown)
005:002 USB Video:  (unknown)
005:001 USB Hub: Virtual|Hub (unknown)
004:001 USB Hub: Virtual|Hub (unknown)
003:001 USB Hub: Virtual|Hub (unknown)
002:001 USB Hub: Virtual|Hub (unknown)
001:001 USB Hub: Virtual|Hub (unknown)

I would like to give better information, but I don't know how. If there is something I can do that would help, or have an idea on what's happening, please let me know.

Thanks for your time

Last edited by agente47 (2007-10-26 17:19:12)

mico

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Re: [SOLVED] bluetooth not working on toshiba laptop

My output with USB bluetooth adapter plugged in:

$ lshwd | grep -i blue
003:002 USB Wireless: Sitecom|Bluetooth USB adaptor (hci_usb)
$ lsusb | grep -i blue
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)

Are you sure your hardware is supported by linux? Did you run hciconfig -a as root to rule out any permission problems?

agente47

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Registered: 2007-10-23

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Re: [SOLVED] bluetooth not working on toshiba laptop

The output as root is the same. I thought that it wasn't supported by linux, but I change my mind because it works out of the box in the last version of ubuntu (It doesn't on previous versions).

Mr Green

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Re: [SOLVED] bluetooth not working on toshiba laptop

/etc/rc.d/bluetooth start if you have not got it in daemons yet!

hcitool hci0 up

hcitool scan

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agente47

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Re: [SOLVED] bluetooth not working on toshiba laptop

I don't have my laptop with me now, but as I remember I've done that already, and when I did it I got something like this as response:

# hcitool hci0 up
hci0: No such device

Anyway I'll try again and confirmate later. In windows, using everest, the bluetooth device is recognized as an usb device if it helps.

agente47

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Re: [SOLVED] bluetooth not working on toshiba laptop

well, I'm on the laptop now, and this is what happens

[root@toshi ~]# /etc/rc.d/bluetooth start
:: Starting bluetooth subsystem:  hcid                                   [DONE]
[root@toshi ~]# hcitool hci0 up
[root@toshi ~]# hcitool scan
Device is not available: No such device

Mr Green

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Re: [SOLVED] bluetooth not working on toshiba laptop

just check if modules are being loaded

 lsmod | grep bluetooth
bluetooth              47844  7 rfcomm,l2cap,hci_usb

Last edited by Mr Green (2007-10-24 19:02:00)

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Re: [SOLVED] bluetooth not working on toshiba laptop

Ubuntu works because it comes with the "toshset" program. You have to turn bluetooth on with

toshset -bluetooth on

For the next release of the kernel this will hopefully be solved (as well as the necessity of patches)

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agente47

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Re: [SOLVED] bluetooth not working on toshiba laptop

I'll try to install the omnibook module http://omnibook.sourceforge.net/ (Thanks to m4jkel, the person who wrote the wiki page for Toshiba Satellite A200 and says me to do this) , that seems to be necessary to use toshset.

I'll keep you informed of my progress

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Re: [SOLVED] bluetooth not working on toshiba laptop

Try

# modprobe hci_usb

If it's not loaded, that is .

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agente47

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Re: [SOLVED] bluetooth not working on toshiba laptop

Well, I finally have it working. I have to test it better, but it seems to work ok. All I have to do was install the omnibook module. I will explain all the       steps I've done, maybe it could help someone.
First of all, installed subversion

pacman -S subversion

then, in a folder created under my home

svn co https://omnibook.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/omnibook/omnibook/trunk/

and when it finishes

make install

This install the omnibook module.
Then added omnibook to the modules array in rc.conf, and added the next line to /etc/modprobe.conf

options omnibook ectype=12

After that I rebooted my system and, voila!, now it works. A new device appears on the lsusb, hciconfig -a shows the device, and all the bluettoth tools I've test already work flawless. I'm going to edit the title of the post to [solved].
I'm not sure at all about if that method is the best one, so please feel free to propose corrections/improvements to it.
Thank you all

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Re: [SOLVED] bluetooth not working on toshiba laptop

There is a PKGBUILD in aur...

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Re: [SOLVED] bluetooth not working on toshiba laptop

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … s=0&SeB=nd

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