Bluetooth not working.
 

Hi, recently my bluetooth stopped working fedora 15
It had been working but now in the System Settings for bluetooth, the boxes are grey out and it states "No Bluetooth adapters found"

When I do a status its appears to be running.

Software installed includes:

I did a "systemctl restart bluetooth.service" and still no difference.

When I try connect my phone, then its doesnt not work either do its not just a display thing.
Others appear to have seen this issue, but not many solution.
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=261231
What is outlined here did not help.

Is there anything else I should look for or try??

appreciate any help or suggestions.

What kind of hardware are you using?? On some laptops (like my EEEpc), there is a FN key sequence that you hit to turn on/off the built-in bluetooth. If you turn it off, the adapter goes away, but will leave the daemon running. Attempts to click on it will show it grayed out, as you're experiencing. Some laptops have bluetooth and wifi on the same hardware switch (annoying), so turning off one turns off both.

Just a first thought, and something you've probably already checked.

appreciate the reply, some of which i'm not aware of... so thanks.

hardware:


I seem to recall them both working together, but maybe something has changed.
However most of the time, I am using wired connection(not wi-fi) and it still appears
to be disabled.

There does not appear to any function key for Bluetooth, unless Im missing it.
Nothing with the typical bluetooth symbol anyway.

This is interesting
How can I check more into this?

thanks again.

Have you tried looking into the rfkill list to see if bluetooth is soft/hard disabled there?

Hi,
I just installed rfkill.
However "rfkill list" command returns nothing.

Then I tried a "rfkill unblock bluetooth"
but nothing appears to happen.....and the system settings are the same.

thanks.

One other additional thing I have had to deal with,.. was turning off Bluetooth in windows....

I had windows 7 installed, and turned off bluetooth, then installed SL6. I was never able to get Bluetooth to work after... until I re-installed windows, turned on bluetooth in windows, then re-installed SL6. Then bluetooth worked.

Hope this helps.

Was more asking about if you're using a laptop or desktop, but by your reply I'll assume laptop. Since you're using wired most of the time, 99% of the time there is a switch (either hardware or FN key), to turn on/off your WiFi. Is it on?
Best way to do this is to check the manual that came with your system, and see what it says about enabling/disabling bluetooth. szboardstretcher brought up a good point...annoyingly, sometimes, you NEED a piece of Windows software to do this, but again, without knowing about your specific hardware, it's hard to say. From your problem description, though, it would seem that bluetooth was working, and now isn't, leading to the "switched off" hypothesis.

apologies, it is a laptop, Toshiba Satelite Pro.

I will try the items suggested and provide some feedback.

The wi-fi connection was off.

What "piece of windows s/w" would I need to turn this back on on Windows XP.
I would have thought something like that would be under control panel or hardware manager or the like.

Appreciate all the help here. thanks.

No apologies necessary...it wasn't clear when asked. :) Did turning the WiFi connection back on do anything? And try to reboot with WiFi enabled, to see what happens there. Sometimes, bluetooth won't come back up correctly if the adapter isn't present when it starts.
Don't know, honestly. Been MS free for many years now, but typically it'll be something (in this case) Toshiba specific, to enable/disable hardware features, but that's just a guess. Might not be the problem at all.

Hi TB0ne

Just left Windows and Bluetooth and Wi-FI were working fine.
Since I had a fresh windows install, I actually had to install the COM driver.
But all was perfect.

Booted into my latest fedora 15 kernel version and only my wired network connection was available.
However bluetooth was still the same - not available.

I then booted into a previous kernel - just to see.
This time my WI-FI connection was available.
However the blue tooth was still the same - not available.

maybe its a linux software thing?
or can you hypothesize based on those observations?

thanks again.

Hmm...try to run "dmesg | grep -i blue", and see what it pulls back. You can also put the dmesg output to a file with "dmesg > <some file name>" so you can look at it in more detail in an editor. Also, try to run "lsmod | grep -i blue", to see if the modules for Bluetooth are loaded.

dmesg output

and
lsmod output
and the service status

so in my layman view, alot seems in order.

thanks for your thoughts.

Yep...everything does look like it's the way it should be. One other thing to examine is your system log, to see if there's anything in there about bluetooth. And found a few things that may help from the Fedora forums:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archiv.../t-261231.html
Try the top one first, and see what happens. After that, the bottom two. Apparently, this is a known bug in Fedora, addressed here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=695588

yep, I had tried this restart before. (and had seen that thread!)
but I wasnt tailing the system log.

This was partly cos I was doing the status and it was reporting as being active (running)

But the restart does show the following from /var/log/messages

So this is certainly something to look into.

status still says active (running) but it is still unavailable in the system settings as before.
will try look into this error.

thanks.

Satellite P750 Bluetooth Issue
 

Hi Moore, Did you ever find out how to turn on the Bluetooth in your toshiba laptop? I have a Satellite P750 running Fedora 15 and the exact same problem as you. The bluetooth software is running but no adapter is found. The Bluetooth LED is also not lit. There is no extra bluetooth function key in the laptop so I have no idea how to turn the adaptor on. Any leads on this issue?