Bluetooth doesn't work in 9.10 (x86-64)

[Emanem]

Binary package hint: bluez

Hi,

while Bluetooth on the same hardware has worked since my first install of Ubuntu (7.10), apparently now it doesn't work anymore.
If I install blueman, when I right click on the greyed icon and choos "Turn Bluetooth On", it doesn't work.

Cheers,

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bluez:
  Installed: 4.51-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 4.51-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 4.51-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Mar 21 19:58:23 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: bluez 4.51-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.58-generic
SourcePackage: bluez
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic x86_64

[Baptiste Mille-Mathias (bmillemathias)]

Hi there,

please could you run the following commands and post the results here.
$ lsusb |grep blue -i
$ lsmod |grep bt
$ grep -i blue /var/log/dmesg
$ hciconfig
$ rfkill list
# perhaps you'll need to install getfacl
$ getfacl /dev/rfkill

thanks

[Emanem (emaentra)]

Here they are:
lsusb |grep blue -i
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 0b05:1712 ASUSTek Computer, Inc. BT-183 Bluetooth 2.0+EDR adapter

lsmod |grep bt
btusb 14260 0

grep -i blue /var/log/dmesg
[ 0.390006] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.15
[ 0.390020] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 0.390020] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 3.645787] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.13
[ 3.645789] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 3.645792] Bluetooth: SCO (Voice Link) ver 0.6
[ 3.645794] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[ 3.645820] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[ 3.645822] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[ 3.645824] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11
[ 32.321265] Bluetooth: Generic Bluetooth USB driver ver 0.5

hciconfig
hci0: Type: USB
 BD Address: 00:1D:60:4D:25:B2 ACL MTU: 384:8 SCO MTU: 64:8
 DOWN
 RX bytes:688 acl:0 sco:0 events:23 errors:0
 TX bytes:91 acl:0 sco:0 commands:23 errors:1

rfkill list
0: hci0: Bluetooth
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no

getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
# file: dev/rfkill
# owner: root
# group: root
user::rw-
group::r--
other::r--

Cheers,

[Baptiste Mille-Mathias (bmillemathias)]

Hi there,

Could you run the command 'sudo hciconfig hci0 up' and do 'sudo hciconfig hci0' afterward?

thanks

[Emanem (emaentra)]

Here is it the output:
hci0: Type: USB
 BD Address: 00:1D:60:4D:25:B2 ACL MTU: 384:8 SCO MTU: 64:8
 UP RUNNING PSCAN ISCAN
 RX bytes:1651 acl:0 sco:0 events:50 errors:0
 TX bytes:704 acl:0 sco:0 commands:50 errors:0

Cheers,

[Baptiste Mille-Mathias (bmillemathias)]

So now what is the situation, is it working better?

[Emanem (emaentra)]

Now it works beautifully.
What was the issue btw?

Thanks again,

[Baptiste Mille-Mathias (bmillemathias)]

Hi there.

hciconfig showed the adapter was down

hciconfig
hci0: Type: USB
 BD Address: 00:1D:60:4D:25:B2 ACL MTU: 384:8 SCO MTU: 64:8
 DOWN
 ^^^^

The command "sudo hciconfig hci0 up" fixed that.
I'm happy this is fixed.

Regards.

[Emanem (emaentra)]

Just FYI, when I right click on blueman and then turnoff, I can't do turn on anymore (or even the "sudo hciconfig hci0 up") unless I reboot.
Cheer,

[Baptiste Mille-Mathias (bmillemathias)]

Perhaps there is also a blug in blueman (which I don't use myself) ?
Have you tried with gnome-bluetooth?