Bluetooth adapter not found [Solved]

[harmon]

Hi!
Summary after having tested more than a dozen Linux distris:
Gnome and most KDE: no problem, BT worked out of the box.
The only chance - if it did not work -: hid2hci, but in SL KDE: "command not found".
SL6 Gnome / 32 bit live DVD: BT okay, but I would never install Gnome 3 (I guess someday each Linux with Desktop Gnome will come with version 3).

Last comment until the end of our vacation.

harmon

[popsUlfr]

Hi!
Summary after having tested more than a dozen Linux distris:
Gnome and most KDE: no problem, BT worked out of the box.
The only chance - if it did not work -: hid2hci, but in SL KDE: "command not found".
SL6 Gnome / 32 bit live DVD: BT okay, but I would never install Gnome 3 (I guess someday each Linux with Desktop Gnome will come with version 3).

Last comment until the end of our vacation.

harmon

I think the 'hid2hci' tool is located in

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/lib/udev/hid2hci

and part of the bluez package.
You can't invoke it directly since it's not in your path. But you could do something like

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ln -s /lib/udev/hid2hci /usr/local/bin/hid2hci

to have it in your path.

[TheConsaw]

Im on a dell inspiron 1564 laptop, just installed sabayon 6 kde yesterday, fully updated,
I have wireless but no bluetooth, when i mouse over the bluetooth icon, it says bluetooth is off, or if i right click it, it says no adapter found ! Ive read the above posts and the bug report link, but its all above my head !

If anyone has any easier to understand solution, Id be greatfull !

Thanks

[popsUlfr]

Im on a dell inspiron 1564 laptop, just installed sabayon 6 kde yesterday, fully updated,
I have wireless but no bluetooth, when i mouse over the bluetooth icon, it says bluetooth is off, or if i right click it, it says no adapter found ! Ive read the above posts and the bug report link, but its all above my head !

If anyone has any easier to understand solution, Id be greatfull !

Thanks

Is your bluetooth adapter integrated or a usb dongle?
Check the output of

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lsusb

and

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lspci -k

for more info.
Try to plug out and back in your usb dongle if you have one.

This is a handy guide: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/bluetooth-guide.xml
Is the bluetooth daemon started?

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/etc/init.d/bluetooth status

if not start it

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/etc/init.d/bluetooth start

Use hciconfig to get info about your adapter:

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hciconfig -a

If you don't see anything try the Code Listing 3.6 to check if the processes are running.

Otherwise you'll have to walkthrough the hints that have been giving here to find a solution, sorry.

EDIT: Ok I did some research and found this thread on the Ubuntu forum regarding issues with that bluetooth adapter.

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hciconfig hci0 reset

may give some new results
add

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options btusb reset=1

to

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/etc/modprobe.d/dellbluetooth.conf

(you may call it what you want)
then try to unload the driver

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modprobe -r btusb

if it doesn't want to try to force the unload

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rmmod -f btusb

now reload the module

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modprobe btusb

See if it helps.

EDIT#2:
Interesting post on a forum:

Today, I partition my harddisk to dual boot with Windows 7. Then, I install BT driver from Dell official site. After installing and configuring, I turn on BT adapter using function of the software, and the BT LED is suddenly on.

I think that BT device is not turned on before I install Linux (Ubuntu and Slackware) and it's still in TURN-OFF status until I active it by Windows 7

So you might need to first turn the bluetooth adapter on using the Windows driver. Weird stuff.

[Fitzcarraldo]

harmon, according to the output of eix that you posted earlier, you have the following Bluetooth-related packages installed:

net-libs/libbluedevil-1.9
net-wireless/bluedevil-1.1-r2
net-wireless/bluez-4.93
net-wireless/bluez-firmware-1.2
net-wireless/bluez-hcidump-2.0

I have the following Bluetooth-related packages installed (I'm using KDE 4.6.2):

dev-python/pybluez-0.18
net-libs/libbluedevil-1.9
net-wireless/bluedevil-1.1-r1
net-wireless/bluez-4.87
net-wireless/bluez-firmware-1.2
net-wireless/bluez-hcidump-1.42
net-wireless/gnome-bluetooth-2.32.0

So why don't you try installing dev-python/pybluez and net-wireless/gnome-bluetooth to see what happens? I doubt very much that the absence of these is the cause of your problem, but anything is worth a shot.

By the way, as a general note, don't forget to use the command (as root user) eix-update periodically in order to refresh the eix database so that it reports the latest status.

Also, what have you got configured in your kernel? Here is what I can find in the 2.6.37 kernel that I am using:

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fitzcarraldo@meshedgedx ~ $ cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep BLUE
CONFIG_BT_HCIBLUECARD=m
fitzcarraldo@meshedgedx ~ $ cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep _BT_
CONFIG_BT_L2CAP=m
CONFIG_BT_SCO=m
CONFIG_BT_RFCOMM=m
CONFIG_BT_RFCOMM_TTY=y
CONFIG_BT_BNEP=m
CONFIG_BT_BNEP_MC_FILTER=y
CONFIG_BT_BNEP_PROTO_FILTER=y
CONFIG_BT_CMTP=m
CONFIG_BT_HIDP=m
CONFIG_BT_HCIBTUSB=m
CONFIG_BT_HCIBTSDIO=m
CONFIG_BT_HCIUART=m
CONFIG_BT_HCIUART_H4=y
CONFIG_BT_HCIUART_BCSP=y
CONFIG_BT_HCIUART_ATH3K=y
CONFIG_BT_HCIUART_LL=y
CONFIG_BT_HCIBCM203X=m
CONFIG_BT_HCIBPA10X=m
CONFIG_BT_HCIBFUSB=m
CONFIG_BT_HCIDTL1=m
CONFIG_BT_HCIBT3C=m
CONFIG_BT_HCIBLUECARD=m
CONFIG_BT_HCIBTUART=m
CONFIG_BT_HCIVHCI=m
CONFIG_BT_MRVL=m
CONFIG_BT_MRVL_SDIO=m
CONFIG_BT_ATH3K=m
# CONFIG_AR600x_BT_QCOM is not set
# CONFIG_AR600x_BT_CSR is not set
CONFIG_AR600x_BT_AR3001=y
CONFIG_ATH6KL_CONFIG_GPIO_BT_RESET=y
CONFIG_AR600x_BT_RESET_PIN=22
CONFIG_TOSHIBA_BT_RFKILL=m
fitzcarraldo@meshedgedx ~ $ cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep _HCI_
CONFIG_ATH6KL_HCI_BRIDGE=y
fitzcarraldo@meshedgedx ~ $

[harmon]

Hi!
Success - the last updates (the first thing I did after vacation) did it!
I found a folder Bluetooth, and after having opened it a scan for devices was starting and my mouse was detected; than I had to choose "no pairing" or similar and "input service".
Many thanks to all making suggestions.

I'm hoping that my USB printer problem will be solved:
http://forum.sabayon.org/viewtopic.php?f=56&t=25185

harmon