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fini_fly

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From: Georgetown, Ontario

Registered: 2009-11-20

Posts: 71

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Bluetooth troubles [SOLVED]

I've been searching around the forums for hours now and trying various things as I am having bluetooth issues on my Dell Studio XPS. On Friday, everything was working well, and now I cannot detect my mouse, or phone. The mouse is the more important issue here.

hcitool dev shows no device:

hcitool dev
Devices:

And to no surprise:

hcitool scan
Device is not available: No such device

But lsusb shows the device:

lsusb
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0a5c:4500 Broadcom Corp. BCM2046B1 USB 2.0 Hub (part of BCM2046 Bluetooth)

dbus, and bluetooth are loaded at boot and I've edited /etc/conf.d/bluetooth to include

HID2HCI_ENABLE="true"
HIDD_ENABLE="true"

The mouse was previously auto-connecting after I had added the mouse mac address to /etc/conf.d/bluetooth

HIDD_OPTIONS=''##:##:##:##:##:##'

Here's my computer:
2.6.32-ARCH
bluez: 4.61-1
kbluetooth: 0.4.2-1

I have no idea what is left to do to get my bluetooth working again, and I would appreciate any and all help on the matter. Thanks!

Last edited by fini_fly (2010-03-16 12:30:10)

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shefla

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From: France

Registered: 2010-03-05

Posts: 19

Re: Bluetooth troubles [SOLVED]

Hi fini_fly,

Do you test this as a single user or as root ?

As a single user, could you please provide us the output of this command : "groups" ?

What happens if you execute these commands as root ?
     hcitool scan
     hcitool dev

Regards

Shefla

fini_fly

Member

From: Georgetown, Ontario

Registered: 2009-11-20

Posts: 71

Website

Re: Bluetooth troubles [SOLVED]

Do you test this as a single user or as root ?

Single user.

What happens if you execute these commands as root ?
     hcitool scan
     hcitool dev

Same output

As a single user, could you please provide us the output of this command : "groups" ?

groups
lp wheel network video audio optical storage scanner users vboxusers

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fini_fly

Member

From: Georgetown, Ontario

Registered: 2009-11-20

Posts: 71

Website

Re: Bluetooth troubles [SOLVED]

Well now it looks like things are back to normal. And I don't know why. I did reinstall bluez and kbluetooth, but I was still not seeing my bluetooth chip. Now I am.

hcitool dev
Devices:
        hci0    00:22:5F:97:81:67

I'm not sure if I should mark this are solved or not as I haven't done anything.

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shefla

Member

From: France

Registered: 2010-03-05

Posts: 19

Re: Bluetooth troubles [SOLVED]

Hi fini_fly,

Maybe one daemon was not started properly.

/etc/rc.d/dbus start
/etc/rc.d/bluetooth start

I think you can close this topic.

Before closing this topic you can make a quick test.
- You restart your computer
- You log as a normal user in your favorite Graphical Environment.
- If the "hcitool dev" command produce the proper output, then I think you can consider this issue is solved.

Regards

Shefla

fini_fly

Member

From: Georgetown, Ontario

Registered: 2009-11-20

Posts: 71

Website

Re: Bluetooth troubles [SOLVED]

Hi fini_fly,

Maybe one daemon was not started properly.

/etc/rc.d/dbus start
/etc/rc.d/bluetooth start

I had tried restarting both of these at one point (as both were loaded) just to see if restarting theem would help.

Anywho, thanks for the help. I'll mark this as solved.

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