Perfect laptops [was: Is there an Archive for this list?]

[Bob Jonkman]

Corey Burger wrote:
> You certain you actually have bluetooth?

Yup, works with Windows, which connects to both my Bluetooth mouses 
(Blueteeth mice?), my cell phone and my Bluetooth earphone.

> A simple lspci can prove it.

lspci doesn't return anything with "bluetooth" in it.  That's the 
problem -- the error message says there's no Bluetooth radio.

Somebody suggested I install the "omnibook" drivers, but I haven't been 
brave enough yet.  http://sourceforge.net/projects/omnibook   The 
omnibook documentation says that it "provides Bluetooth monitoring and 
control", but doesn't say it makes hardware appear when the kernel can't 
see it.  All the other functionality omnibook provides (fan control, 
touchpad control, CPU temperature monitoring, &c.) is already working.

--Bob.


Corey Burger wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com> wrote:
>   
>> Even Bluetooth?  Now that Victor *Mendonça has helped me* fix my cooling
>> problems[1] the only really annoying thing is that I can't use my
>> Bluetooth mouse on my laptop.
>>
>> It seems that the Bluetooth radio isn't recognized at all -- when I
>> select "System, Preferences, Bluetooth" I get an error message "No
>> Bluetooth adapters present".
>>
>> The laptop is a Toshiba Satellite P200D; I'm currently running Karmic,
>> updating the system daily.  'bluetooth' and 'gnome-bluetooth' packages
>> and their dependencies are installed.  The 'toshset' package is
>> installed too, but I don't think that has any Bluetooth stuff in it.
>>     
>
> You certain you actually have bluetooth? Both of my laptops have
> outward signs of bluetooth (lights, etc.) but both lack the hardware.
> A simple lspci can prove it.
>
> Now if you do have bluetooth, be aware that the code for that in
> GNOME/Ubuntu has been in a bit of flux recently but has gotten better.
>
> Corey
>
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