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Rakesh Kumar
Asked: 2012-04-29 00:20:28 +0800 CST

Unable To Enable Bluetooth on a Dell N4110

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I'm using Ubuntu 11.10. When I turn on Bluetooth and go into 'Preferences' I am unable to move the slider to 'On'.

It just slides back to off. Screenshot:

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I installed Blueman Bluetooth Manager from the Software Center but it didn't work at all.

Can anyone tell me how can I enable it? Need to transfer files from my Samsung phone.

bluetooth 11.10

2 Answers

  1. OP solved this problem by upgrading to 12.04:

    Thanks for the help Will. But I upgraded to 12.04 and it worked! May be it was some glitch with 11.10.

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  2. I am having the same problem with a Vaio VPC-SB35SB/B. The bluetooth works only when I first start windows and then reboot and start ubuntu. But if I shutdown completely, when I power on the notebook again, the bluetooth is disabled.

    I tried to solve it for many ways, doing the command below:

    sudo hciconfig hci0 up

    When I executed this command, it returns me a timeout and nothing happens. I thought that this should be a problem with the session and I've tried to add this command to run at startup, but it doesn't works too.

    I got this problem today with the wireless. I shutdown my wireless switching the button on my note. When I tried to turn on again, the wireless was not working. I solved this running this command:

    sudo rfkill unblock all

    And my wireless switched on again.

    Try the last command with the bluetooth, because now my bluetooth is working. When it stop to work, I will try it. If you have any progress, please tell me.

    Sorry for my english. It's not my native language.

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