[Mageia-dev] Bluetooth USB dongle - not showing up

Sun Mar 11 20:27:37 CET 2012

'Twas brillig, and Robert Fox at 11/03/12 18:20 did gyre and gimble:
+> I have 3 different bluetooth usb devices and can't get anyone to work on
+> my cauldron based box. When I insert the dongle - nothing happens, but
+> when I pull is out I get:
+> 
+> Mar 11 19:16:14 foxbase systemd[1]: Service bluetooth.target is not
+> needed anymore. Stopping.
+> 
+> lsusb shows:
+> Bus 004 Device 005: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth
+> Dongle (HCI mode)
+> 
+> harddrake2 doesn't show anything either - although:
+> 
+> [root at foxbase rfox]# lsmod | grep blue
+> bluetooth             275663  1 btusb
+> crc16                  12675  1 bluetooth
+> rfkill                 21915  2 bluetooth,cfg80211
+> 
+> What can I do to get it to work?
+
+What does systemctl status bluetoothd.service say?
+
+If it's disabled, then enable and start it. This should happen
+automatically on update or initial install.
+
+Col
+
+
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+Colin Guthrie
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