Bluetooth adapter not detected

[DeaconCTK]

Binary package hint: bluez

Clean install of 10.04 with all updates. Bluetooth works fine when I reboot into Windows XP. The computer is a Dell Inspiron 9300 with a Dell Wireless 350 Bluetooth Internal adapter.

"bluetooth-properties" indicates "Your computer does not have any Bluetooth adapters plugged in."

"hcitool scan" indicates "Device is not available: No such device"

"hciconfig" returns nothing.

bluez 4.60-0ubuntu8 is installed.

I've attached the output from lsusb -vv for reference.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: bluetooth (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue May 18 09:09:49 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
InterestingModules: bluetooth
MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron 9300
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic root=UUID=04e9a4c4-1206-49c7-a261-c768fc143c87 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: bluez
dmi.bios.date: 03/29/2005
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A03
dmi.board.name: 0C5668
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA03:bd03/29/2005:svnDellInc.:pnInspiron9300:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0C5668:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Inspiron 9300
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
hciconfig:

rfkill:

[Jonas Ådahl (jadahl)]

I have the same problem, with Acer Travelmate 6292. It seems the kernel doesn't recognize the internal bluetooth chip. The Bluetooth button on the laptop only triggers "Increase Brightness", instead of actually activating bluetooth. It worked well in Ubuntu 9.04.

[dino99 (9d9)]

Closing that outdated report as EOL has been reached long time ago