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

Sun Mar 11 20:34:32 CET 2012

On Sun, 2012-03-11 at 19:27 +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+> '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?
+> 
+
+[root at foxbase rfox]# systemctl status bluetoothd.service
+bluetoothd.service
+          Loaded: error (Reason: No such file or directory)
+          Active: inactive (dead)
+
+
+> If it's disabled, then enable and start it. This should happen
+> automatically on update or initial install.
+> 
+Doesn't look good . . . what now?
+
+R.Fox
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