bluetooth discovery fails: no devices found during scan
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
bluez (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
linux (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: bluez
hcitool scan completes without errors but no devices found
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: bluez 4.91-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.39-0-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu May 12 10:42:55 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
InterestingModules: rfcomm bnep btusb bluetooth
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion dm1 Notebook PC
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
SourcePackage: bluez
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 03/04/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: F.05
dmi.board.
dmi.board.name: 1611
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.board.version: 96.1F
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-
dmi.product.name: HP Pavilion dm1 Notebook PC
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
hciconfig:
hci0: Type: BR/EDR Bus: USB
BD Address: EC:55:F9:D1:60:07 ACL MTU: 310:10 SCO MTU: 64:8
UP RUNNING PSCAN
RX bytes:2767 acl:0 sco:0 events:116 errors:0
TX bytes:1966 acl:0 sco:0 commands:111 errors:0
A workaround is described here: http:// ubuntuforums. org/showthread. php?t=1584388. Boot in Windows, turn on bluetooth, turn off bluetooth/wifi in hardware with fn-12, and boot in Linux. This is just a workaround; it's suboptimal having to install Windows to get working bluetooth.