This bug seems to be affecting me as well. I have the same laptop as kanor mentions, the ASUS UX301LA. When the bluetooth device is blocked via rfkill, the hci0 device shows up properly under hciconfig. However, when the bluetooth device is unblocked, hci0 vanishes.
For example: $ sudo rfkill block bluetooth $ sudo rfkill list 0: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 1: asus-wlan: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 2: asus-bluetooth: Bluetooth Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: no 5: hci0: Bluetooth Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: no $ sudo hciconfig -a hci0: Type: BR/EDR Bus: USB BD Address: 5C:51:4F:0F:42:4E ACL MTU: 1021:5 SCO MTU: 96:5 DOWN RX bytes:1016 acl:0 sco:0 events:104 errors:0 TX bytes:16335 acl:0 sco:0 commands:103 errors:0 Features: 0xff 0xfe 0x0f 0xfe 0xdb 0xff 0x7b 0x87 Packet type: DM1 DM3 DM5 DH1 DH3 DH5 HV1 HV2 HV3 Link policy: RSWITCH HOLD SNIFF Link mode: SLAVE ACCEPT $ sudo rfkill unblock bluetooth $ sudo rfkill list 0: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 1: asus-wlan: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 2: asus-bluetooth: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no $ sudo hciconfig -a [no output] What's even more interesting is that the device disappears from lsusb output: $ sudo rfkill block bluetooth $ sudo lsusb -d 8087:07dc Bus 002 Device 007: ID 8087:07dc Intel Corp. $ sudo rfkill unblock bluetooth $ sudo lsusb -d 8087:07dc [no output] Relevant information: $ dmesg | grep -i bluetooth [ 9.128331] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.16 [ 9.128723] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized [ 9.128731] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized [ 9.128734] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized [ 9.128741] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized [ 9.135096] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3 [ 9.135100] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast [ 9.135107] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized [ 9.143738] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized [ 9.143751] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized [ 9.143753] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11 [ 10.067400] Bluetooth: hci0: read Intel version: 370710018002030d2e [ 10.067404] Bluetooth: hci0: Intel device is already patched. patch num: 2e [ 1112.489206] Bluetooth: hci0: read Intel version: 370710018002030d00 [ 1112.493990] Bluetooth: hci0: Intel Bluetooth firmware file: intel/ibt-hw-37.7.10-fw-1.80.2.3.d.bseq [ 1112.645191] Bluetooth: hci0: Intel Bluetooth firmware patch completed and activated $ uname -a Linux zadkiel 3.11.0-15-generic #23-Ubuntu SMP Mon Dec 9 18:17:04 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1209124 Title: Support for Intel 7260 bluetooth [8087:07dc] To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1209124/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs