On 18 April 2012 16:07, Barry Drake <[email protected]> wrote: > I've just put 12.04 on my Samsung N150 netbook. Previously, I've had to do > various tweaks to get things fully working, but with 12.04, everything > worked out of the box. Fantastic. > > The only problem was starting off with the 'upgrade' option on the Live CD > installer. This was a miserable failure in several ways including a > non-working installation of the Ubuntu Software Centre. I don't want to go > into all the details, but I've never yet got 'Upgrade', either online or > from a live CD to work properly. It was quicker and easier to re-install. > > There is something I've wanted to do before and failed. I'd like Bluetooth > to be off by default. The command 'service bluetooth stop' which I seem to > remember used to work, gives the reply 'bluetooth stop/waiting' but does not > turn Bluetooth off according to the Bluetooth icon. The command 'rfkill > block bluetooth' does work OK, but if I want to turn bluetooth back on, > 'unblock' sets the icon to active, but Bluetooth won't work until I have > re-booted without the rfkill command in my ~/.profile file. > > Something has to be possible as I can turn Bluetooth off and on again by > clicking on the icon and using the menuitem there. But I'd like to do this > as a command on startup. Any thoughts?
You should be able to turn it off in System Settings > Bluetooth Colin > > Regards, Barry. > > -- > Barry Drake is a member of the the Ubuntu Advertising team. > http://ubuntuadverts.org/ > > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
