From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
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Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 15:20:25 +0200
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Subject: Re: [Bluez-users] Linux control of bluetooth radio
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Hi Peter,

> I have a dual-boot (WinXP and Mandriva w/ 2.6.14) Dell
> M70 laptop with an internal Bluetooth daughter card. 
> It would seem that I can use WinXP to disable the
> radio on the Bluetooth card.  When I then boot into
> Linux, the BT card is detected and hci0 is initialised
> but Bluetooth doesn't work.
> 
> Is there a way to turn the BT radio on and off under
> Linux ?  (hciconfig up/down and reloading the kernel
> module doesn't seem to work and there's no /proc
> interface)

check /proc/bus/usb/devices if the Bluetooth is present there. Otherwise
you need to find the switch to activate Bluetooth with a Dell laptop. I
don't have a Dell machine, so I don't know what's the magic trick.

Regards

Marcel


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