Same problem here with a bluetooth usb dongle that works on jaunty. sudo hciconfig hci0 up does not work for me. Bluetooth-applet always shows "Bluetooth: Disabled"
hcitool scan and sdptool browse WORK OK on command line so the bug is in gnome-bluetooth. Ubuntu Karmic updated and upgraded: gnome-bluetooth_2.28.1-0ubuntu2 lsusb: Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 003 Device 008: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) Bus 003 Device 006: ID 09da:0006 A4 Tech Co., Ltd Optical Mouse WOP-35 / Trust 450L Optical Mouse Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub rfkill list: 1: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 4: hci0: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no bluetoothd --nodaemon --debug (shows at the end): bluetoothd[2749]: Adapter /org/bluez/2749/hci0 has been enabled bluetoothd[2749]: Computer is classified as laptop bluetoothd[2749]: Setting 0x00010c for major/minor device class bluetoothd[2749]: Unable to register adapter: hci0 already exist bluetooth-applet -d: ** Message: adding killswitch idx 5 state 1 ** Message: killswitch 5 is 1 ** Message: killswitches state 1 ** Message: RFKILL event: idx 5 type 2 op 2 soft 0 hard 0 ** Message: killswitch 5 is 1 ** Message: killswitches state 1 Agent registration failed: The name org.bluez was not provided by any .service files dmesg |grep bluetooth: [ 0.102585] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.15 [ 0.102621] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized [ 0.102625] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized [ 0.897158] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.13 [ 0.897161] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized [ 0.897164] Bluetooth: SCO (Voice Link) ver 0.6 [ 0.897166] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized [ 0.897210] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized [ 0.897214] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized [ 0.897217] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11 [ 7.428296] Bluetooth: Generic Bluetooth USB driver ver 0.5 [ 21.054644] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3 [ 21.054649] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast -- [Karmic Beta] Bluetooth is disabled. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/447312 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs