USB Bluetooth Not Recognized?

[raynedanser]

Like an idiot, I forgot to order bluetooth when I ordered my laptop, so tonight I grabbed a Targus USB Receiver and can't get the lappy to recognize it.

I tried following *this* and *this* and rebooted (old Windows habit, I know, but one of them said it might help, too) - and it still isn't recognized.

If I click Inquiry in Blueman, it tells me that it failed to start inquiry because the device is busy.

Help?

[melojo]

open a terminal and post the output of

lsusb

[raynedanser]

Bus 007 Device 004: ID 0781:5406 SanDisk Corp. Cruzer Micro 4GB Flash Drive
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 005: ID 0a5c:2154 Broadcom Corp.
Bus 004 Device 004: ID 0a5c:4503 Broadcom Corp.
Bus 004 Device 003: ID 0a5c:4502 Broadcom Corp.
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 0a5c:4500 Broadcom Corp.
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 004: ID 046d:c526 Logitech, Inc.
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

Where Logitech is my wireless mouse. *sigh* It isn't reading it at ALL and it's plugged in and "restarting" it through terminal didn't help earlier.

[melojo]

is your usb ports 2.0 capatable or just 1.1? How old is the machine?

not sure whether this will help to get lsusb to see the device but its worth a try.

/etc/init.d/dbus restart


Then try lsusb again.

[raynedanser]

Ports are all 2.0 - machine is a little over 2 months old.

Did the restart and got this. lsusb gets same result as it did before.

* Stopping Hardware abstraction layer hald [ OK ]
* Stopping DHCP D-Bus daemon dhcdbd [ OK ]
* Stopping Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon avahi-daemon Failed to open PID file: Permission denied
[ OK ]
* Stopping System Tools Backends system-tools-backends start-stop-daemon: warning: failed to kill 5569: Operation not permitted
[ OK ]
* Stopping network events dispatcher NetworkManagerDispatcher [ OK ]
* Stopping network connection manager NetworkManager [ OK ]
* Stopping system message bus dbus start-stop-daemon: warning: failed to kill 5526: Operation not permitted
[ OK ]
rm: cannot remove `/var/run/dbus/pid': Permission denied

[melojo]

sry try sudo /etc/init.d/dbus restart

[Yellow Pasque]

Also, run this to make sure you have the latest usb id's:

sudo update-usbids

[raynedanser]

Also, run this to make sure you have the latest usb id's:

sudo update-usbids

I did, thank you.

Still no change:

Bus 005 Device 006: ID 0a5c:2154 Broadcom Corp.
Bus 005 Device 005: ID 0a5c:4503 Broadcom Corp.
Bus 005 Device 004: ID 0a5c:4502 Broadcom Corp.
Bus 005 Device 003: ID 0a5c:4500 Broadcom Corp.
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 046d:c526 Logitech, Inc.
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0781:5406 SanDisk Corp. Cruzer Micro 1/2/4GB Flash Drive
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000


Unless - could Broadcom be it?

[melojo]

I did, thank you.

Still no change:

Bus 005 Device 006: ID 0a5c:2154 Broadcom Corp.
Bus 005 Device 005: ID 0a5c:4503 Broadcom Corp.
Bus 005 Device 004: ID 0a5c:4502 Broadcom Corp.
Bus 005 Device 003: ID 0a5c:4500 Broadcom Corp.
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 046d:c526 Logitech, Inc.
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0781:5406 SanDisk Corp. Cruzer Micro 1/2/4GB Flash Drive
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000


Unless - could Broadcom be it?

did you restart after sudo update-usbids or
sudo /etc/init.d/dbus restart

[raynedanser]

did you restart after sudo update-usbids or
sudo /etc/init.d/dbus restart

Both. I entered the command in the terminal and then it also zapped my wireless (and I couldn't remember where to reset it), so I rebooted as well and then redid lsusb

Still zilch. Am starting to wonder if this one is just not going to work for my system. :/