bluetoothnot working

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1

hi
just installed suse 11.4 kde on my sony vaio vgntx-27gp and im really lovin it
but the bluetooth adapter is not detected
i went to through the forums and finally landed up doing this
installed rfkill
and gave command rfkill list with my adapter switched off
gave me this output

0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes

when switched on gave me this output

0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
2: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no

which means my blutooth is soft blocked

now when i give command

sudo /usr/sbin/rfkill unblock bluetooth

it does nothing

i learnt all this by going through forums so maybe im not right…

please help

thanks a lot

2

I have an Acer laptop so my advice might not help you, but here it is:

To enable bluetooth adapter on my laptop I have to press Fn + F3 key combination (it also enables/disbales WLAN adapter). So check whether your laptop has some similar key combination for controlling wireless devices.

3

thanks
i have a switch which toggles my bluetooth on and off
wlan works but bluetooth says no device found…
please help

4

Go to configure desktop > Adapters and there you will find the option to enable your bluetooth adapter.

5

went there
says no buletooth adapters found…
can nobody help me??

6

Hi
Try running the rfkill command as root user and use the identifier;


su -
rfkill list
rfkill unblock 2
rfkill list

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop
up 3 days 14:32, 6 users, load average: 0.01, 0.10, 0.13
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - Driver Version: 270.41.06

7

hi
thanks for the reply it worked!
but after i reboot and switch it on again… it gets soft blocked again!!.. dont know why…?
also i am uable to send a file to my android phone… from windows it just works fine…
thanks for all the help…!
:shame:

8

Hi
I would guess that something on the windows side may be shutting it off
when you exit windows, else just check your BIOS for anything…

If you can’t find anything we need to find a start script to add the
command too.

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.37.6-0.5-desktop
up 1 day 2:34, 3 users, load average: 0.06, 0.07, 0.11
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - Driver Version: 270.41.06

9

Hi,

I have sony VAIO laptop. You can use Bluetooth in your Sony VAIO laptop. If you have installed Windows operating system in it, you can easily enable Bluetooth because Windows comes with a Bluetooth configuration utility.

To enable Bluetooth device in your Sony VAIO laptop, you need to do three things.

First of all, you need to have a Bluetooth adapter in your system.

Then set up the device so that your computer can find it.

Then you can enable the device in the control panel.