Bluetooth not installed

[Michael E Brown]

On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 11:53:02AM -0400, Peter Larsen wrote:
> Not sure if this is the right place for this. It is not a power-edge but
> a laptop latitude D820, but it's running Linux (fedora7).

linux-desktops is a better list for this.

> I'm trying to get bluetooth running but I'm not successful.
> When I run dellWirelessCtl --st_bt I get:
> 
> Radio Status for Bluetooth:
>       Bluetooth supported

Your laptop BIOS supports internal bluetooth module.

>       Bluetooth not installed

But it is not physically installed.

>       Bluetooth enabled

But if it were, it would be enabled.

>       Status code: 2
> 
> I'm unclear to what the difference between enabled and installed is. The
> linux side of bluetooth is running but can clearly not find the physical
> bluetooth device on the laptop.

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> Does the above mean that HARDWARE wise there's no bluetooth device?

Right.

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Michael