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

Sun Mar 11 20:43:59 CET 2012

'Twas brillig, and Robert Fox at 11/03/12 19:34 did gyre and gimble:
+> 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?
+
+Sorry, spelling error on my part...
+
+systemctl status bluetooth.service
+
+
+Col
+
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