bluetooth on dell wireless 355 module in kubuntu 7.04

[Patrick Steiner]

Rahul Tank wrote:
>
>
> On 5/8/07, *Patrick Steiner* <patrick.steiner at a1.net 
> <mailto:patrick.steiner at a1.net>> wrote:
>
>     Rahul Tank wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     > On 5/8/07, *Patrick Steiner* <patrick.steiner at a1.net
>     <mailto:patrick.steiner at a1.net>
>     > <mailto:patrick.steiner at a1.net <mailto:patrick.steiner at a1.net>>>
>     wrote:
>     >
>     >     On Monday, 7. May 2007 07:22:23 you wrote:
>     >     > > could it be that you have got the same problem like me?
>     >     > >
>     >     > > do you have a dell d420 notebook?
>     >     > >
>     >     > > if you have installed windows also try to reboot from
>     windows
>     >     into linux.
>     >     > >
>     >     > > bluetooth should work after that, until you shutdown you
>     notebook.
>     >     > >
>     >     > > patrick
>     >     >
>     >     >  The same happens with my Dell D620. I need to boot into
>     windows
>     >     first to
>     >     > get my bluetooth working on linux. Is this normal ??? Or
>     is it
>     >     sum kind of
>     >     > bug ??
>     >     >
>     >     >  Cheers,
>     >     >   Rahul
>     >
>     >
>     >     hmm strange, i dont know whats the problem. could you give
>     me some
>     >     more
>     >     details.
>     >
>     >     - windows version
>     >
>     >
>     >   Windows Vista .. Business edition
>     Could this be a windows vista related bug? some other drivers
>     (bluetooth
>     firmware) ?
>
>
>  well... to start with my bluetooth adapter was not being detected in 
> linux at all. After lots of tries i gave up and booted in windows for 
> the first time. Just out of curiosity i installed bluetooth driver 
> provided by dell to check whether my bluetooth actually works ? ... It 
> did work but then this problem, need to boot windows everytime for bt 
> to work in linux.
>
>   Is it possible that by virtue of booting into windows, the dell 
> firmware initializes my hardware (bt) ..which is then detected when i 
> boot in linux. Am not a linux guru,so this might sound stupid ..but at 
> the end of all my wits !! ...
i also don't know, but i don't understand why it works on some d420, 
d630 notebooks...

has anyone on this mailinglist windows vista (dual boot) installed and 
his bluetooth works?

regards,
 patrick