On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Mike Connors <[email protected]> wrote: > I've done quite a bit of research on this but I just can't seem to get > Bluetooth to work. I read some posts that say you have to compile > bluetooth kernel support and others that say it just works out of the box. > I have looked at all the output from dmesg, lsmod, and syslog regarding > Bluetooth and I don't see any indication > of any problems. I have the Bluez stack installed as well as other > Bluetooth pkgs/libraries. > > I've gathered all the info I could think of regarding Bluetooth. Any > advice on what to try next is greatly appreciated!
I've never gotten bluetooth to work reliably with my thinkpad. I finally realized that it had to do with where they placed the antenna on my particular model. At the very bottom of the machine so ALL of the hardware is between the radio, and anything you want it to connect to. When I got some things to support the laptop in the air, and put bluetooth devices under it I had better success. Unfortunately I discovered that whenever bluetooth was active my WIFI crapped out. My guess is because the wifi card is right next to the bluetooth card. Having bluetooth work wasn't worth having WIFI not work so I stopped working on it. I also tried an external usb->bluetooth adapter, but didn't figure out how to turn that on without also turning on the internal problematic one. I think though that I might be able to unplug the internal one, and that might solve the problem. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
