[Bug 628741] [NEW] gnome-bluetooth doesn't recognize dongle

[Federico Pelloni]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: gnome-bluetooth

When I plug in my USB bluetooth dongle the led starts blinking, but the bluetooth icon does not appear on the panel.
If I open bluetooth-preferences from the menu, it says "no device connected" (or something similar, I am translating from Italian).
Ater searching on the web, I did a chmod 666 /dev/rfcomm: now I instead have a big button saying "Turn on bluetooth", but clicking that will do nothing.

The dongle works, as I tested it on Windows and also on Ubuntu, "hcitool
scan" correctly finds my cellphone.


IIRC I had this problem also with Lucid.

My dongles is branded "eXagerate", lsusb says its a "Bus 002 Device 002:
ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)"

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gnome-bluetooth 2.30.0-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-19.28-generic 2.6.35.3
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-19-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Sep  2 12:20:49 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha amd64 (20100803.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=it_IT.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-bluetooth

** Affects: gnome-bluetooth (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug bluetooth gnome-bluetooth maverick

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gnome-bluetooth doesn't recognize dongle
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