Can't find bluetooth device - Hp 6730b (Centrino 2)

[jords]

I'm having a strange problem with getting bluetooth to work on my hp 6730b- I can't seem to find a bluetooth device, but the bluetooth works fine in vista so it must be there ...

lspci, lshw, and lsusb: http://pastebin.com/f33252528

I can't see a bluetooth device anywhere in there..

http://www.linlap.com/wiki/HP-Compaq+6730B and http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/HP_6730B say that the laptop's bluetooth is supported in linux, and gentoo-wiki says: BT: HP branded Broadcom, supported by bcm203x module

The bcm203x module is loaded according to lsmod.

hcitool dev lists no devices and the gnome-bluetooth app can't find any either...

Anyone know what could be going on here? Never had a issue with hardware i know exists not showing in lspci or lsusb before...

Thanks
Jordan

PS: Running ubuntu, but installed ubuntu-desktop from my kubuntu install so i have both installed. I have a few of the kde bluetooth apps installed but they don't work either

[jords]

bump?

[jords]

Just in case anyone else has this problem:

I've found the solution to this: I dual boot with vista, and in the hp wireless manager software on vista i had disabled bluetooth to save power ( and just enabled it when i need it) - It seems that if it's disabled in the vista software, the device doesn't even appear to the computer. - And this holds over reboots. So when i enabled it in the vista software and rebooted bluetooth worked immediately.

[firfin]

Wow. Amazing.. you can really seriously f**k up your computer when using vista. Time for serious driver support under linux. If this bluetooth chip was well supported under linux this wouldn't be happening.

[jords]

I don't think it's so much the support of the actual broadcom chip, but I think the hp windows software is sending a special signal to a hp chip on the motherboard to turn it off.

So Linux just needs to be able to interface with this chip, but i imagine it's quite specific to each laptop model....

[blaize1310]

I have the same problem with my 6730b but I only have Ubuntu so does anyone have any ideas on how I can turn it back on

Thanks

Tony

[blaize1310]

bump

Surely I don't have to install windows to fix this problem????

Tony

[blaize1310]

Ok I have fixed this and YES you need windows natively install, i.e. not virtualbox or vmware to install the HP Wireless assistant. Once you turn bluetooth on in windows it just works in Ubuntu

Tony

[djeek]

A simple "Restore defaults" in the BIOS will fix this.