dell inspirion N5110 bluetooth problem

**OmerTatar** · September 24th, 2011

Hi all,

I have just bought brand new dell inspiron N5110 laptop...it has an intergrated buletooth adapter. But with Ubuntu 11.04 it doesn't work...when I click on bluetooth icon on left upper corner it says Buletooth disabled....any clue how to enable it?

**gandaran** · September 24th, 2011

when I click on bluetooth icon on left upper corner it says Buletooth disabled

start bluetooth manager and click the turn on Bluetooth button
if still no work check that the wireless switch is on
and also check in BIOS if Bluetooth is enabled

**OmerTatar** · September 25th, 2011

I have checked that before writing this thread...

**aniketharshe20** · October 9th, 2011

dude just turn on wifi (fn+F2)key and then click on bluetooth icon it will show Turn on Bluetooth option

**starling13** · October 18th, 2011

It doesn't work for me. From the other side, if I plug in external USB BT adapter, then the full BT menu on the BT icon appears and things start to work. Thus, the problem comes from the lack of support of internal BT adapter in the ubuntu 11.10

**khurtsiya** · February 9th, 2012

Same problem here.

**akoskm** · September 21st, 2012

Exactly the same problem. Same laptop model.

OS Info:

Code:

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
Release:	12.04
Codename:	precise

Here are some screenshots:
Taskbar:

Bluetooth manager:

**akoskm** · September 30th, 2012

Suddenly the Bluetooth tray app is reporting that my Bluetooth is on. I already paired my android device with my laptop, but I'm still unable to send files from my phone to my laptop.

I can see my laptop in the sharing menu but sending any file ends up with Connection failure on my phone.

Any ideas?