[CentOS] bluetooth mystery

Thu Sep 3 13:13:45 UTC 2009
Preston Connors <pconnors at atlantic.net>

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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 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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