broken bluetooth after upgrade to 8.10

[Derek Broughton]

Sundar Nagarajan wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> 
>>> 2008/11/15 Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>:
>>>> Then why are the tools still in the distro?
>>>>
>>> Why is the appendix still in our bellies?
>>>
>>> That is actually a great question, Derek, and the truth is that the
>>> bluetooth problem was discovered so late in the process that it is
>>> just broken, not removed.
>> 
>> Actually, it occurs to me that this is nothing to do with Kubuntu,
>> anyway.  hcitool is not KDE  - it's much lower level than that.
>> 
>> So the question is still "why doesn't hcitool work"?
> 
> I agree. I read the bug report, and it appears that the KDE bluetooth
> APPLET (GUI) in KDE 4.x which is included in 8.10 is not compatible
> with the bluez-4 stack. In fact some people on the bug discussion
> thread report that bluez-gnome works fine. So the underlying stack and
> tools, including hcitool, should work.

That's my understanding too, but not what Dotan is saying.
-- 
derek