HOWTO: Toshiba Laptop (with Phoenix BIOS) and built-in Bluetooth support

[marcon00]

Would you believe if i tell you thata after Kernel upgrade to *19 version from ubuntu servers it worked for a while till i rebooted ? :S the icon popped up,but i didnt have time to try it, i figured it would be a permenant thing .. n now its gone .

[paste]

Thanks for the tip. I used to manually hack the toshiba_apci.c driver file in the kernel every time I wanted to get Bluetooth working for a new version of the kernel. I have a Toshiba Portégé m400 tablet:

$ cat /proc/omnibook/dmi 
BIOS Vendor:   TOSHIBA
BIOS Version:  Version 3.60
BIOS Release:  06/26/2007
System Vendor: TOSHIBA
Product Name:  PORTEGE M400
Version:       Version 1.0
Serial Number: 46069503H
Board Vendor:  TOSHIBA
Board Name:    Version A0

Also, as a free tip, if you want a quick way to set default values at system start time (like turning on Bluetooth without having to type commands into a terminal) you can use upstart (if you have Feisty or newer, then upstart is already installed). Just make a file called /etc/event.d/omnibook and copy and paste into it the following:

#/etc/event.d/omnibook
# Start bluetooth, wireless, and whatever else you want at startup!
start on runlevel 2

script
    echo 1 > /proc/omnibook/bluetooth
    echo 1 > /proc/omnibook/wifi
    # put whatever other commands you want to issue in here
end script

You can tell upstart to start your new bluetooth job immediately with the command

$ sudo start omnibook

or you can just wait until the next time you reboot. I searched high and low for events that upstard can capture immediately on module loads, but to no avail. Anyway, enjoy!

[Rianthas]

Finally have my brightness hotkeys working, but only my brightness keys working. Lucky for me, it's been my biggest priority. Trying to get my Fn + TV Out hotkey to work is next.

Anyway, trying to modprobe toshiba or toshiba_acpi gives back an error so I haven't been able to get fnfx to work.

To add on to this thread, A305D owners need to modprobe omnibook ectype=13 with whatever is in the svn repo. modprobe omnibook doesn't enable anything, and using ectype=12 instead of 13 will lock up your box, forcing you to shutdown with a hard reset.

Here is /proc/omnibook/dmi

BIOS Vendor:   Insyde Corp.
BIOS Version:  1.50   
BIOS Release:  06/09/2008
System Vendor: TOSHIBA
Product Name:  Satellite A305D
Version:       PSAH0U-00Q009
Serial Number: 78401777Q
Board Vendor:  ATI Corp.
Board Name:    Base Board Version

[dwpa]

Hi there. I'm having trouble with my Satellite X205-s9810. I'm not sure if it is supported or not (only have dmi and version in /proc/omnibook) and I'm unable to open the omnibook.sourceforge.net webpages. I get a wiki setup error so I don't know if they are having some downtime on their server or what, but I really need to know what a close match would be to my model.

BIOS Vendor:   TOSHIBA
BIOS Version:  V2.30
BIOS Release:  02/12/2008
System Vendor: TOSHIBA
Product Name:  Satellite X205
Version:       PSPB9U-05C02P
Serial Number: 58245371K
Board Vendor:  TOSHIBA
Board Name:    1.00

Any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated.

--dwpa

[Iili_ya_ili]

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[Iili_ya_ili]

Hi there. I'm having trouble with my Satellite X205-s9810. I'm not sure if it is supported or not (only have dmi and version in /proc/omnibook) and I'm unable to open the omnibook.sourceforge.net webpages. I get a wiki setup error so I don't know if they are having some downtime on their server or what, but I really need to know what a close match would be to my model.

BIOS Vendor:   TOSHIBA
BIOS Version:  V2.30
BIOS Release:  02/12/2008
System Vendor: TOSHIBA
Product Name:  Satellite X205
Version:       PSPB9U-05C02P
Serial Number: 58245371K
Board Vendor:  TOSHIBA
Board Name:    1.00

Any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated.

--dwpa

Try this links: (for internet browser).
http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...roup_id=174260
http://sourceforge.net/projects/omnibook/

And please, help me. I have problems with installing this module on ubuntu (kernel 2.6...). During compilation errors appear and the compillation stops whithout success. Could yoou help me? Or anybody does?

[LuisC-SM]

One little trick for the Toshiba a200-237 with 8.04 (thanks to Johan Vromans) See also http://www.vromans.org/johan/article.../omnibook.html

#insmod omnibook.ko userset=1 ectype=12


My bluetooth is sending files to my Toshiba at this moment

Hope this helps!

Kriebel

Hi. I want to thank you for this info.

On openSuSE 11 it works jast as you have said. I'll tryit later on OS11.1 as well)

my dmi file:

BIOS Vendor: TOSHIBA
BIOS Version: V4.50
BIOS Release: 09/30/20082
System Vendor: TOSHIBA
Product Name: Satellite P105
Version: PSPA6U-006005
Serial Number: 36078015W
Board Vendor: TOSHIBA
Board Name: Not Applicable

My lsusb:

Bus 004 Device 002: ID 0930:0508 Toshiba Corp. Integrated Bluetooth HCI
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 04fc:0538 Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

Thanks a lot and Kind Regards

Luis

PS. Thnxs so much to the original poster for this approach.

[Forever unknowN]

Still got the problem on A200-1AE:

# cat /proc/omnibook/dmi
BIOS Vendor:   TOSHIBA
BIOS Version:  V1.80
BIOS Release:  08/21/2007
System Vendor: TOSHIBA
Product Name:  Satellite A200
Version:       PSAECE-01Q00DPL
Serial Number: 47340777K
Board Vendor:  TOSHIBA
Board Name:    1.00

# ls /proc/omnibook
dmi  version

Don't mind the other modules, just need bluetooth running. Anyone can help? I did step-by-step everything written in here, tried different ectypes and just nothing happens...

[LuisC-SM]

Still got the problem on A200-1AE:

# cat /proc/omnibook/dmi
BIOS Vendor:   TOSHIBA
BIOS Version:  V1.80
BIOS Release:  08/21/2007
System Vendor: TOSHIBA
Product Name:  Satellite A200
Version:       PSAECE-01Q00DPL
Serial Number: 47340777K
Board Vendor:  TOSHIBA
Board Name:    1.00

# ls /proc/omnibook
dmi  version

Don't mind the other modules, just need bluetooth running. Anyone can help? I did step-by-step everything written in here, tried different ectypes and just nothing happens...

Have you tried other "ectypes"... (10 to 15) there is also 12-modified.
Most probabily some value will help you.
Play a little bit with them.
Good luck

Luis

[Forever unknowN]

I tried every ectype
If I didn't, I would't ask for help...

Everything works on my computer, except for bluetooth and card reader (AFAIK this card reader won't work under Linux )