[Bug 991681] [NEW] Bluetooth is disabled in 11.10, shows disabled in preference Laptop model SONY VAIO EG35

[HEMANT SINGH]

Public bug reported:

I can see the bluetooth ON in the staus bar, but when i open the preference i can see it disabled.THe Bluetooth ON and Visibility option is greyed out , so cannot make any changes.
On running lsusb
juniper at ubuntu:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 064e:a21b Suyin Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0489:e027 Foxconn / Hon Hai 


juniper at ubuntu:~$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 11.10 \n \l

juniper at ubuntu:~$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu 3.0.0-17-generic #30-Ubuntu SMP Thu Mar 8 17:34:21 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

[   26.354006] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.16
[   26.354065] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[   26.354068] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[   26.354070] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[   26.358707] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[   26.385257] Bluetooth: Generic Bluetooth USB driver ver 0.6
[   27.868337] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[   27.868343] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[   27.868345] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11
[   27.871813] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[   27.871816] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast

** Affects: bluez (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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  Bluetooth is disabled in 11.10, shows disabled in preference Laptop
  model SONY VAIO EG35

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