[SOLVED] cannot 'up' my bluetooth-device

Hi,
On my macbook pro (v5.5) i only recently started tinkering with bluetooth. I remember that I got it to pair with my phone the first time I tried bluez/blueman out. Next time I tried, it didn't work anymore - probably due to an upgrade in the mean time.
My symptoms:
I followed the wiki and installed the bluez-package and blueman-package.
I start bluetooth in my rc.conf, without errormessage.
Then I start openbox and tint2 with 'ck-launch-session blueman-applet' in my autostart.sh
I immediately get a warning that my bluetooth device is not up and all the options in the blueman-applet menu are grey.
When I do:
hciconfig
I get one device, hci0, which is 'DOWN'
when I do:
hciconfig hci0 up
I get an 'unknown error (error 132)' - the device stays 'DOWN'
On the Ubuntu-forums I get similar errors, but the solution doesn't work. It could be rfkill-related in the kernel.
Last edited by zenlord (2009-12-02 09:48:49)

Yes, I read the same solution on other forums. But in order to quickly find out if my device was 'soft blocked', I installed the AUR-package.
You're right, as usual: a 'cat 1 >> /proc/<something something>' would be way more KISS. Even setting the module parameter 'default_state' seems like a better choice than mine.
On the other hand I'm planning on also installing 'rfkill-applet' so that both me and my girlfriend can *easily* switch on the bluetooth and wifi on my laptop
/EDIT: since you're on the subject: there are a lot of people/distro's affected by this, but I didn't read anywhere that this is a bug - do you know if this is the default behaviour from now on for rfkil, or that this is really a bug that will be squashed in the (near) future?
Last edited by zenlord (2009-12-02 13:19:24)

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