Same problem here as well. I have a Winbook V Series laptop. I upgraded from Hardy to Intrepid, and bluetooth now fails to work properly. Here are some hopefully helpful logs:
#dmesg | grep 'Bluetooth' [ 36.432172] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.13 [ 36.436772] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized [ 36.436777] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized [ 36.466171] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.11 [ 36.466176] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized [ 36.484050] Bluetooth: SCO (Voice Link) ver 0.6 [ 36.484054] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized [ 36.527797] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3 [ 36.527801] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast [ 36.693036] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized [ 36.693053] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized [ 36.693056] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.10 [ 6812.928554] Bluetooth: Generic Bluetooth USB driver ver 0.3 #sudo hciconfig hci0 reset <nothing resulted> #hcitool scan Scanning ... Inquiry failed: Connection timed out <the bluetooth light was not blinking, no scanning was occuring> #sudo /etc/init.d/bluetooth restart * Stopping bluetooth [ OK ] * Starting bluetooth [ OK ] #hcitool dev Devices: hci0 <mac here> Installing these bluetooth programs, above the default installed programs for Intrepid, did not help: Commit Log for Wed Nov 5 21:17:29 2008 Installed the following packages: gnome-bluetooth (0.11.0-0ubuntu3) gnome-vfs-obexftp (0.4-1build1) libbtctl4 (0.10.0-1ubuntu1) libgnomebt0 (0.11.0-0ubuntu3) obexfs (0.10-3build1) obexftp (0.19-7ubuntu2) obexpushd (0.7-1ubuntu2) ussp-push (0.9-2ubuntu1) -- Bluetooth does not work at Acer Aspire 7520 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/284982 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs