[CentOS] bluetooth mystery

[Roger K. Wells]

Preston Connors wrote:
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> Roger K. Wells,
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> 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 at 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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> Thank you,
> Preston Connors
> Atlantic.Net
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