Bluetooth adapter not found [Solved]

[harmon]

Hi!
Since the last update I cannot connect to my BT mouse; starting BT from system settings I get:

No Bluetooth adapters have been found

In other distris there is a command to activate the adapter, but in SL Terminal as root:

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sabayon ~ # hid2hci --method=dell --vendor=413c --product=8156
bash: hid2hci: command not found...


Last update: I can' t remember a relevance concerning BT. So what could have happened?
How to solve? Any similar command?

[harmon]

Hi!
On PCLinuxOS, where the BT mouse is working I got the following:

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[root@localhost ~]# lsmod | grep blue
bluetooth              51698  10 hidp,rfcomm,sco,bnep,l2cap,btusb
rfkill                 12694  4 bluetooth,dell_laptop,cfg80211
[root@localhost ~]# lsmod | grep hid
hidp                   10461  1
l2cap                  39423  21 hidp,rfcomm,bnep
bluetooth              51698  10 hidp,rfcomm,sco,bnep,l2cap,btusb
usbhid                 31267  0
hid                    63565  2 hidp,usbhid
usbcore               117639  9 snd_usb_audio,snd_usbmidi_lib,btusb,uvcvideo,uhci_hcd,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd,usbhid


I suppose some users have a connection to a BT mouse:
Could you please post your outputs? In SL I got no output running the lsmod | grep - commands.
Again PCL:

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[root@localhost ~]# lsusb
...
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0a5c:4500 Broadcom Corp. BCM2046B1 USB 2.0 Hub (part of BCM2046 Bluetooth)
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 413c:8157 Dell Computer Corp. Integrated Keyboard
Bus 003 Device 004: ID 413c:8158 Dell Computer Corp. Integrated Touchpad / Trackstick
Bus 003 Device 005: ID 413c:8156 Dell Computer Corp. Wireless 370 Bluetooth Mini-card
...

harmon

[micia]

Just a rememberance from the past, have you tried to run:
(as root)

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/etc/init.d/bluetooth start


maybe that daemon is not running and your bluetooth does not get recognized...

[harmon]

Hi!
The last days I was searching for hours in forums, with Google, tried several "solutions", but no luck.
No success with your advice, micia.
The problem is, that the adapter is not recognized; to solve that I need a command similar to the "hid2hci"
(working in other Linux distributions).

[Fitzcarraldo]

You may find that the post Re: No WiFi after update solves your Bluetooth problem too.

[Fitzcarraldo]

What exactly have you got installed? What is the output of the following command?:

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eix -I blue

[harmon]

Hi!
I only made all updates, installed nothing concerning BT.

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sabayon harmon # eix -I blue
[I] net-libs/libbluedevil
     Available versions:  (4) 1.9
        {aqua debug kdeenablefinal}
     Installed versions:  1.9(4)(10:41:29 AM 06/22/2011)(-aqua -debug -kdeenablefinal)
     Homepage:            http://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/libs/libbluedevil
     Description:         Qt wrapper for bluez used in the KDE bluetooth stack

[I] net-wireless/bluedevil
     Available versions:  (4) 1.1-r2
        {aqua debug kdeenablefinal linguas_ca linguas_ca@valencia linguas_cs linguas_da linguas_de linguas_el linguas_en_GB linguas_eo linguas_es linguas_et linguas_eu linguas_fi linguas_fr linguas_hu linguas_it linguas_ja linguas_ko linguas_lt linguas_mai linguas_ms linguas_nb linguas_nds linguas_nl linguas_pa linguas_pl linguas_pt linguas_pt_BR linguas_ro linguas_ru linguas_sk linguas_sl linguas_sv linguas_th linguas_tr linguas_uk linguas_zh_TW}
     Installed versions:  1.1-r2(4)(10:55:07 AM 06/22/2011)(linguas_ca linguas_cs linguas_da linguas_de linguas_el linguas_en_GB linguas_eo linguas_es linguas_et linguas_eu linguas_fi linguas_fr linguas_hu linguas_it linguas_ja linguas_ko linguas_lt linguas_ms linguas_nb linguas_nds linguas_nl linguas_pa linguas_pl linguas_pt linguas_pt_BR linguas_ro linguas_ru linguas_sk linguas_sl linguas_sv linguas_tr linguas_uk linguas_zh_TW -aqua -debug -kdeenablefinal -linguas_ca@valencia -linguas_mai -linguas_th)
     Homepage:            http://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/base/bluedevil
     Description:         Bluetooth stack for KDE

[U] net-wireless/bluez
     Available versions:  4.87 4.93 (~)4.94 (~)4.95 (~)4.95-r1 {alsa attrib caps +consolekit cups debug gstreamer health maemo6 old-daemons pcmcia pnat test-programs usb}
     Installed versions:  4.93(12:18:16 PM 06/05/2011)(alsa consolekit cups gstreamer pcmcia usb -caps -debug -health -maemo6 -old-daemons -pnat -test-programs)
     Homepage:            http://www.bluez.org/
     Description:         Bluetooth Tools and System Daemons for Linux

[I] net-wireless/bluez-firmware
     Available versions:  *1.1 (~)1.2
     Installed versions:  1.2(03:16:48 PM 07/01/2011)
     Homepage:            http://bluez.sourceforge.net/
     Description:         Firmware for Broadcom BCM203x and STLC2300 Bluetooth chips.

[I] net-wireless/bluez-hcidump                                                                   
     Available versions:  1.42 (~)2.0                                                           
     Installed versions:  2.0(12:35:18 PM 06/05/2011)                                           
     Homepage:            http://bluez.sourceforge.net/                                         
     Description:         Bluetooth HCI packet analyzer                                         
                                                                                                 
Found 5 matches.                                                                                 

In other distris I find Places: Home, root,... and BT, in SL I miss BT.
Starting Internet/ BlueDevil it minimizes into the panel, some seconds later it's gone.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Here is what I have got installed:

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$ eix -I blue
[I] dev-python/pybluez
     Available versions:  0.18 {examples}
     Installed versions:  0.18(12:45:26 16/07/11)(-examples)
     Homepage:            http://code.google.com/p/pybluez/
     Description:         Python bindings for Bluez Bluetooth Stack

[I] net-libs/libbluedevil
     Available versions:  (4) 1.9 **9999[1]
        {aqua debug kdeenablefinal}
     Installed versions:  1.9(4)(12:43:26 16/05/11)(-aqua -debug -kdeenablefinal)
     Homepage:            http://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/libs/libbluedevil
     Description:         Qt wrapper for bluez used in the KDE bluetooth stack

[U] net-wireless/bluedevil
     Available versions:  (4) 1.1-r2 **9999[1]
        {aqua debug kdeenablefinal linguas_ca linguas_ca@valencia linguas_cs linguas_da linguas_de linguas_el linguas_en_GB linguas_eo linguas_es linguas_et linguas_eu linguas_fi linguas_fr linguas_hu linguas_it linguas_ja linguas_ko linguas_lt linguas_mai linguas_ms linguas_nb linguas_nds linguas_nl linguas_pa linguas_pl linguas_pt linguas_pt_BR linguas_ro linguas_ru linguas_sk linguas_sl linguas_sv linguas_th linguas_tr linguas_uk linguas_zh_TW}
     Installed versions:  1.1-r1(4)(12:44:32 16/05/11)(-aqua -debug -kdeenablefinal -linguas_ca -linguas_ca@valencia -linguas_cs -linguas_da -linguas_de -linguas_el -linguas_en_GB -linguas_eo -linguas_es -linguas_et -linguas_eu -linguas_fi -linguas_fr -linguas_hu -linguas_it -linguas_ja -linguas_ko -linguas_lt -linguas_mai -linguas_ms -linguas_nb -linguas_nds -linguas_nl -linguas_pa -linguas_pl -linguas_pt -linguas_pt_BR -linguas_ro -linguas_ru -linguas_sk -linguas_sl -linguas_sv -linguas_th -linguas_tr -linguas_uk -linguas_zh_TW)
     Homepage:            http://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/base/bluedevil
     Description:         Bluetooth stack for KDE

[U] net-wireless/bluez
     Available versions:  4.87 4.93 (~)4.94 (~)4.95 (~)4.95-r1 {alsa attrib caps +consolekit cups debug gstreamer health maemo6 old-daemons pcmcia pnat test-programs usb}
     Installed versions:  4.87(00:01:17 12/02/11)(alsa consolekit cups pcmcia usb -attrib -caps -debug -gstreamer -health -maemo6 -old-daemons -pnat -test-programs)
     Homepage:            http://www.bluez.org/
     Description:         Bluetooth Tools and System Daemons for Linux

[I] net-wireless/bluez-firmware
     Available versions:  *1.1 (~)1.2
     Installed versions:  1.2(07:28:36 04/11/10)
     Homepage:            http://bluez.sourceforge.net/
     Description:         Firmware for Broadcom BCM203x and STLC2300 Bluetooth chips.

[U] net-wireless/bluez-hcidump
     Available versions:  1.42 (~)2.0
     Installed versions:  1.42(07:30:12 04/11/10)
     Homepage:            http://bluez.sourceforge.net/
     Description:         Bluetooth HCI packet analyzer

[I] net-wireless/gnome-bluetooth
     Available versions:  (2) 2.32.0
        {debug doc +introspection nautilus}
     Installed versions:  2.32.0(2)(09:10:13 14/02/11)(-debug -doc -introspection -nautilus)
     Homepage:            http://live.gnome.org/GnomeBluetooth
     Description:         Fork of bluez-gnome focused on integration with GNOME

[1] "kde" /var/lib/layman/kde

Found 7 matches.

You don't need gnome-bluetooth if you're using KDE (I don't know why I have it installed, actually, as I'm not using GNOME myself. Looks like I installed it on 14 Feb. this year for some reason or other.) I doubt you need pybluez either, but you could try installing that to see what happens.

Here's what modules I have loaded:

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$ lsmod | grep blue
bluetooth              45527  9 sco,bnep,rfcomm,l2cap,btusb

If I understand you correctly, you don't have any bluetooth module loaded? If that is the case, have you tried the following?:

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# modprobe bluetooth

then check again with the lsmod command. If the module is loaded, then use the command:

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/etc/init.d/bluetooth restart

[harmon]

Hi!
Sorry - no effect.
i)

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sabayon harmon # lsmod | grep blue

nothing

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sabayon harmon # modprobe bluetooth
sabayon harmon # lsmod | grep blue
bluetooth             100651  0
sabayon harmon # /etc/init.d/bluetooth restart
 * Starting Bluetooth ...                                                                  [ ok ]
 *   Starting rfcomm ...                                                                   [ ok ]
sabayon harmon # hcitool scan
Device is not available: No such device


Starting Internet/ BlueDevil
Some seconds -> minimizing to the panel ->nothing
After rebooting:

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sabayon harmon # lsmod | grep blue
sabayon harmon # modprobe bluetooth
sabayon harmon # lsmod | grep blue
bluetooth             100651  0
sabayon harmon # hcitool scan
Device is not available: No such device
sabayon harmon # /etc/init.d/bluetooth restart
 * Starting Bluetooth ...                                                                  [ ok ]
 *   Starting rfcomm ...                                                                   [ ok ]
sabayon harmon # hcitool scan
Device is not available: No such device
sabayon harmon # lsmod | grep blue
bluetooth             100651  3 rfcomm
sabayon harmon # hcitool scan
Device is not available: No such device


Weird: After having rebooted: "grep blue" -> nothing! Some steps later: rfcomm.
It's not:

bluetooth 45527 9 sco,bnep,rfcomm,l2cap,btusb

[Fitzcarraldo]

I'm sorry, harmon, but I'm running out of ideas. I wonder if this is a problem with the latest kernel, or the configuration of it. I'm using the 2.6.37-sabayon kernel (with a couple of changes, but nothing changed by me at all in the Bluetooth config). Can you try downgrading the kernel using kernel-switcher, to see if that solves the problem? If not, perhaps you should file a bug report in the SL Bugzilla to see if one of the developers is using Bluetooth successfully with the Sabayon 2.6.39-r9 kernel (I take it that's the one you're using?).