F15: bluetooth not working

Fernando Cassia fcassia at gmail.com
Tue May 31 05:55:39 UTC 2011


Hi there,

I'm using a Chinese Malata PC-91007 netbook (Atom N450, the works)
http://bit.ly/lzsaKD with F15.

Bluetooth doesn't work. There's a BT led that is ON (the system
provides keystrokes Fn-F1 to enable/disable webcam, Fn-F2 to
enable-disable Wifi, but no keystroke to enable-disable BT, so on
Windows that BT led remains ON all the time as well).

The BT is connected on the mobo via USB, if I remember correctly.
13d3:3250 is the vid/pid of the device, if I'm not mistaken...

lsusb gives:

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0402:5621 ALi Corp. M5621 High-Speed IDE Controller
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 148f:3070 Ralink Technology, Corp.
RT2870/RT3070 Wireless Adapter
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 13d3:3250 IMC Networks
Bus 001 Device 009: ID 0ac8:3450 Z-Star Microelectronics Corp.

However, on F15 the Gnome 3.0 BT icon shows "Bluetooth ON, visibily
OFF". Theres no way to bring it to "Visibility on", and first I need
to pair it with a Palm Centro smartphone.

If I click on "Bluetooth Settings" I get "Bluetooth OFF" "Visibility
OFF" and al options grayed out.

Thoughts? Comments?
FC


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