On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 2:32 AM, karan pratap singh <[email protected]>wrote:
> > The problem is bluetooth toggles properly but wifi does not, the state of >> wifi, once hard-blocked does not get unblocked. >> Hope its clear now. >> >> > Yes! Now it is clear! > > And let me tell you that this problem is most probably due to driver issues > in the <Os that is not to be named>. > > I do not know the solution to this one, BUT I had a somewhat related > problem with my Dell Inspiron 1564 too. > > here is a short description of the problem I was facing! > > 1) I noticed that my F2 key was toggling wifi in Ubuntu 10.04 but the > bluetooth did not turn ON! > > 2) No matter what I tried, or what bluetooth software I used in Ubuntu the > bluetooth will not work at all in Ubuntu, though the wifi was toggling > properly with the F2 key! > > 3) After searching for a solution for long, I noticed that I had disabled > bluetooth through Windows 7 Dell bluetooth driver to conserve battery life, > and no matter what Ubuntu did, it could not re-enable the bluetooth back! > Okay the issue is similar. > > which effectively means that Evil Windows Bluetooth Driver had locked away > my bluetooth hardware chip!!! > and Ubuntu or other linux distro could do nothing about that! > Seems sensible cause for the problem. > > so the only solution I had was to log back in Windows( ugh! ) and > re-enable my bluetooth!, and then it was toggling properly in Ubuntu! > congratulaitons. But my condition is different. Wifi and Bluetooth are both enabled. I do not touch the F2 key, never !!! I don't use tty2 ever. When the key is pressed, it disables both bluetooth and wifi. When pressed again it enables Bluetooth but not Wifi. Restarting the system solves the issue, sometimes does not. Once it had been so that I had left trying and after a week or two I found it enabled o.O. :P. How do I investigate what goes on, behind the scene? > > Now I had windows in my latop then, but what of some guy who disables the > bluetooth in windows and then gets rid of windows to switch to linux, only > to find that his bluetooth is useless now! and then that newbie might tell > his friend that Linux sucks!! What a shame!!! > Seriously, what a shame !!! > > Hope this experience of mine helps someone! > > -- > regards, > Karan Pratap Singh > PULUG > Panjab University > Chandigarh > > -- > Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: > http://lug-iitd.org/Footer > -- Anuvrat Parashar http://about.me/anuvrat.parashar -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
