Bluetooth Doesnt Work - Eee PC 1005HA-P

[Evan]

I am running Ubuntu 9.04 on my Asus Eee PC 1005HA-p (the one that has bluetooth) and cannot get the bluetooth manager to find bluetooth mice or nearby computers. It doesn't seem to find the bluetooth device in the computer (AW-BT253), though I know it isnt a hardware problem because Windows XP finds it fine.

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

To start out, is the device being identified as a bluetooth device?

Take a look if btusb is getting loaded:

$ btusb

If it is, make sure that

$ hciconfig

lists it.

If it's listed, try to reset the device using

$ sudo hciconfig hci0 reset

If that works, then it's a kernel bug and your device needs a reset quirk.

[Mikko Ohtamaa (mikko-red-innovation)]

Running Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala RC 1. It knows nothing about bluetooth.

root@huiskuttaja:/home/moo/code/eee-control-0.9.4# hcitool dev
Devices:
root@huiskuttaja:/home/moo/code/eee-control-0.9.4#

binfmt_misc 8356 1
ppdev 6688 0
snd_hda_codec_realtek 203328 1
snd_hda_intel 26920 2
snd_hda_codec 75708 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 7200 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm_oss 37920 0
snd_mixer_oss 16028 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 75296 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy 2656 0
snd_seq_oss 28576 0
sha256_generic 11580 0
snd_seq_midi 6432 0
aes_i586 8124 146
snd_rawmidi 22208 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 6940 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 50224 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
aes_generic 27484 1 aes_i586
arc4 1660 2
snd_timer 22276 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
iptable_filter 3100 0
ecb 2524 3
snd_seq_device 6920 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
cbc 3516 144
ip_tables 11692 1 iptable_filter
joydev 10272 0
ath9k 258744 0
x_tables 16544 1 ip_tables
mac80211 181236 1 ath9k
snd 59204 16 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
led_class 4096 1 ath9k
ath 8060 1 ath9k
soundcore 7264 1 snd
psmouse 56180 0
snd_page_alloc 9156 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
cfg80211 93052 3 ath9k,mac80211,ath
uvcvideo 59080 0
atl1c 30880 0
lp 8964 0
videodev 36736 1 uvcvideo
eeepc_laptop 13936 0
serio_raw 5280 0
parport 35340 2 ppdev,lp
dm_crypt 12928 1
v4l1_compat 14496 2 uvcvideo,videodev
fbcon 36640 72
tileblit 2460 1 fbcon
font 8124 1 fbcon
bitblit 5372 1 fbcon
softcursor 1756 1 bitblit
i915 221064 3
drm 159584 3 i915
i2c_algo_bit 5760 1 i915
video 19380 1 i915
output 2780 1 video
intel_agp 27484 2 i915
agpgart 34988 2 drm,intel_agp

[Baptiste Mille-Mathias (bmillemathias)]

hcitool dev show your device is not discovered.
what is the output of lsusb?
Do you have any information in the logs related to bluetooth?

thanks

[co0lingFir3 (coolingfire)]

I have a eee pc 1005 HA-PU (same bluetooth adapter?) and my bluetooth adapter is also not discovered in Lucid. It says "your computer does not have any bluetooth adapters plugged in" in gnome-bluetooth.
Output of $ hcitool dev
Devices:

I also attached the output of lsusb. In the last lines of /var/log/kern.log and /var/log/kern.log it says:
[ 187.386244] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.15
[ 187.386480] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[ 187.386490] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 187.386503] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized

Do you need any other information?

[Manoj Iyer (manjo)]

Can you please attach the output of the following command ?

$ sudo lsusb -vv

I have a EEEPC 1201N and it has a broadcom BT device and Lucid kernel is able to recognise it.

[co0lingFir3 (coolingfire)]

Ouput of sudo lsusb -vv.

[co0lingFir3 (coolingfire)]

Please ignore the previous attachment. Made it on the wrong machine...
Here is the correct output of sudo lsusb -vv.

[Manoj Iyer (manjo)]

I was looking at a EEEUser forum where they recommend updating bios fix the bluetooth issue..

http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=80380

[co0lingFir3 (coolingfire)]

Updated my Bios to v1401 through the automatic updater in Windows. Bluetooth works like a charm now. Thanks Manoj! Strange though, that it worked with the old Bios and Karmic...

[Baptiste Mille-Mathias (bmillemathias)]

Cool,

I close the bug, thanks manjo for finding the culprint.