Bluetooth not working an cauldron

[pnunn]

Hi Guys,

picked up a bluetooth mouse today and went to install it (or try to) and discovered that the bluetooth on my laptop isn't on and doesn't seem to be detected any more (it was working under MG1).

Adapters - System Settings tells me that No Bluetooth adapters have been found

lsmod show bluetoothd loaded, but the symbol on the laptop is not iluminated. Run manually the setup wizard times out.

Anything I should try before reporting?

Ta

Peter.

[doktor5000]

There should be a switch on your laptop to enable bluetooth, what happens when you flip it?
Otherwise please show the output of

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rfkill list

and (as root)

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hcitool dev

On a sidenote: Even on Mageia 1 the KDE bluetooth systray icon doesn't show up every
time i enable it, and hcitool dev then doesn't also show any devices, so i have to enable it at
least twice to get it working in most cases.

[pnunn]

Thanks doktor500.

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>rfkill list
0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
1: dell-bluetooth: Bluetooth
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
2: phy0: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
3: hci0: Bluetooth
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no


and

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>hcitool dev
Devices:


There is no switch on this laptop for bluetooth (just for wifi) as far as I can see.

Peter.

[ozky]

Is there in bios menu switch to enable bluetooth ?

[doktor5000]

There is no switch on this laptop for bluetooth (just for wifi) as far as I can see.

What about a keyboard shortcut, mostly this is Fn + one of the Function keys?
And please show the output of

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dmesg | grep -i blue

[pnunn]

Thanks again,

still looking for a switch. In the bios it seems the wifi switch can turn all of the external wirless transmitters off so that might be it. The symbol does flash on briefly during boot so I think its enabled (certainly is in the bios anwyay).

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>  dmesg | grep -i blue
usb 2-1.7: Product: DW375 Bluetooth Module
Bluetooth: Core ver 2.16
Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: Generic Bluetooth USB driver ver 0.6



Peter