gnome-bluetooth doesn't recognize dongle

[Federico Pelloni]

Binary package hint: gnome-bluetooth

When I plug in my USB bluetooth dongle the led starts blinking, but the bluetooth icon does not appear on the panel.
If I open bluetooth-preferences from the menu, it says "no device connected" (or something similar, I am translating from Italian).
Ater searching on the web, I did a chmod 666 /dev/rfcomm: now I instead have a big button saying "Turn on bluetooth", but clicking that will do nothing.

The dongle works, as I tested it on Windows and also on Ubuntu, "hcitool scan" correctly finds my cellphone.

IIRC I had this problem also with Lucid.

My dongles is branded "eXagerate", lsusb says its a "Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)"

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gnome-bluetooth 2.30.0-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-19.28-generic 2.6.35.3
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-19-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Sep 2 12:20:49 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha amd64 (20100803.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=it_IT.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-bluetooth

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the stable release - Oneiric Ocelot. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed. You can find out more about it at http://www.ubuntu.com/download . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Federico Pelloni (fredp)]

The bug does not happen in Oneiric. Don't know if it's fixed or just a different hardware combination that's working better - I have a new laptop with Oneiric and the same old bluetooth dongle is recognized and working.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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