Getting bluetooth to work

I'm trying to get bluetooth working with my new laptop. I've looked at the wiki, but it doesn't seem to help

I've got the bluetooth daemon running. When I do hcitool scan I get:
Device is not available: No such device
I'm pretty sure I have built in bluetooth, because it said on my order form..
EDIT: I installed kdebluetooth but it doesn't detect anything.
Last edited by miggols99 (2007-12-29 21:23:02)

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