After using a bluetooth mouse for a couple of weeks on:
[root@rwells-cts ~]# uname -a Linux rwells-cts 2.6.18-128.7.1.el5.centos.plus #1 SMP Mon Aug 24 10:03:38 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
the machine is a Lenovo laptop, X200
today after booting (and re-booting) not even the bluetooth led lights up (it did so immediately after installing CentOS), there is no bluetooth icon on the gnome task panel hcitool finds nothing, re-installing gnome-bluetooth has no effect, etc.....
Any ideas on what to do next will be appreciated.
thanks,
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Roger K. Wells,
On my older Think Pad I had a similar problem with devices, such as WLAN and Bluetooth, shutting off and not showing up in Linux for no apparent reason. Every so often I would have to ensure that the BIOS settings had the device enabled, that other Operating Systems on the computer didn't have the device disabled, and that I didn't accidentally hit the physical switch on the computer disabling the device. I found that most times the other operating system (Windows XP at the time) had the device disabled for an unknown reason and that re-enabling the device in the other operating system allowed the device to properly operate in Linux.
Roger K. Wells wrote:
After using a bluetooth mouse for a couple of weeks on:
[root@rwells-cts ~]# uname -a Linux rwells-cts 2.6.18-128.7.1.el5.centos.plus #1 SMP Mon Aug 24 10:03:38 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
the machine is a Lenovo laptop, X200
today after booting (and re-booting) not even the bluetooth led lights up (it did so immediately after installing CentOS), there is no bluetooth icon on the gnome task panel hcitool finds nothing, re-installing gnome-bluetooth has no effect, etc.....
Any ideas on what to do next will be appreciated.
thanks,
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Preston Connors wrote:
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Roger K. Wells,
On my older Think Pad I had a similar problem with devices, such as WLAN and Bluetooth, shutting off and not showing up in Linux for no apparent reason. Every so often I would have to ensure that the BIOS settings had the device enabled, that other Operating Systems on the computer didn't have the device disabled, and that I didn't accidentally hit the physical switch on the computer disabling the device. I found that most times the other operating system (Windows XP at the time) had the device disabled for an unknown reason and that re-enabling the device in the other operating system allowed the device to properly operate in Linux.
Thanks for the response. I feel really dumb. The physical switch had been turned off. I have had several ThinkPads and this is the first with an actual switch, on all the others the power to the radios was controlled via software. thanks again, roger
Roger K. Wells wrote:
After using a bluetooth mouse for a couple of weeks on:
[root@rwells-cts ~]# uname -a Linux rwells-cts 2.6.18-128.7.1.el5.centos.plus #1 SMP Mon Aug 24 10:03:38 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
the machine is a Lenovo laptop, X200
today after booting (and re-booting) not even the bluetooth led lights up (it did so immediately after installing CentOS), there is no bluetooth icon on the gnome task panel hcitool finds nothing, re-installing gnome-bluetooth has no effect, etc.....
Any ideas on what to do next will be appreciated.
thanks,
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