It appears that the default state for the the bluetooth module is off and upon installing acerhk module running "echo "1" > /proc/driver/acerhk/blueled" turns on the module.
This is now related to this bug https://launchpad.net/bugs/80485 -- Bluetooth doesn't work on Acer TravelMate C310 https://launchpad.net/bugs/80488 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
