Enable Bluetooth via dellWirelessCtl

[Patrick Steiner]

Michael E Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 12:01:27PM -0500, Michael E Brown wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 09:00:40AM +0200, Patrick Steiner wrote:
>>     
>>> On Thursday, 12. April 2007 18:04:36 Michael E Brown wrote:
>>>       
>>>> On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 09:01:04AM +0200, Patrick Steiner wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> Patrick Steiner wrote:
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com wrote:
>>>>>>             
>>>>>>> Pretty much that would be me. I was working from home last week. I
>>>>>>> have on my todo list for this week to go down to the hardware library
>>>>>>> and check out a 420 to look at this. I didnt see anything obvious last
>>>>>>> week when we were talking. BTW, which linux distro were you on?
>>>>>>>               
>>>>> Fedora Core 6.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yesterday Dell released the new A04 Bios. But there is also the same
>>>>> problem :-(
>>>>>           
>>>> I've attempted to locate a D420 to test on, but apparently the hardware
>>>> library here doesnt have one. (I had forgotten about this in the
>>>> meantime, thanks for the reminder.) I'll send a note out to our internal
>>>> list to see if there is any other way I can find one.
>>>>         
>>> many thanks, bluetooth would be so nice ;-).
>>>       
>> I've located one in one of the other buildings, but I wont be able to go
>> look at it until next week.
>>     
>
> Ok, I took a look at a D420 with Ubuntu Feisty Fawn installed today
> using libsmbios 0.13.6. Everything I tested worked fine.
>
> I was able to:
>     -- turn off bluetooth at runtime (USB device disappeared)
>     -- turn on bluetooth at runtime (USB device appeared)
>     -- turn off wirelesss radio at runtime (radio turns off)
>     -- turn on wireless radio at runtime (radio turns back on)
>     -- control the wireless switch so that it controls any combination
>     of bluetooth/wlan.
>
> This was running BIOS A03. I was not able to see anything that didnt
> work.
> --
> Michael
>
>   
hi michael,

thanks for testing, so it looks like its a fedora bug....
are there any recent binary available for ubuntu? i only could find some 
old 0.12 version.

so i can test it with a livecd.

regards,
 patrick