On Sun, 2011-07-03 at 20:53 +0100, Jon Spriggs wrote: > (and no, it isn't down the back of the sofa) > > So, here's the thing, I bought one of these: > http://www.ebuyer.com/product/265218 > > I've received it, and installed Ubuntu 11.04 on there (yes, even with > Unity) and it's lovely. Everything I wanted it for works a treat - > Wifi's great, battery life, about what I was expecting (but I've not > really pushed it, so I don't know for sure) and the video is great - > 1366x768. > > Anyway, when I unboxed it, I noticed the Function feature for F12 > shows an antenna symbol and the letters BT. As a geek, I'd not > bothered to look at the paperwork which came with it, but it clearly > says there "All models, while they may have dissimilar colouring or > placement of features, all include the same hardware"... and later > says "bluetooth". > > I crack open a terminal, to run hcitool dev... and it says > "Devices:"... and then nothing. Hmm, I think, maybe it's not switched > on by default (which, bluetooth really shouldn't be), so I toggle the > feature, and check it again - still nothing. > > lspci gives me the following: > > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory > Controller Hub (rev 09) > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series > Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09) > 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset > Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09) > 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB > UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03) > 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB > UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03) > 00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB > UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03) > 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 > EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) > 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio > Controller (rev 03) > 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express > Port 1 (rev 03) > 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express > Port 2 (rev 03) > 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express > Port 3 (rev 03) > 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express > Port 5 (rev 03) > 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB > UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) > 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB > UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) > 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB > UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03) > 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 > EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) > 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93) > 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03) > 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E 2 port SATA IDE > Controller (rev 03) > 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev > 03) > 00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E 2 port SATA IDE > Controller (rev 03) > 02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. > RTL8191SEvB Wireless LAN Controller (rev 10) > 08:00.0 Ethernet controller: JMicron Technology Corp. JMC260 PCI > Express Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 05) > 08:00.1 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. SD/MMC Host > Controller (rev 90) > 08:00.2 SD Host controller: JMicron Technology Corp. Standard SD Host > Controller (rev 90) > 08:00.3 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. MS Host Controller (rev > 90) > > and lsusb just shows me the hubs. Again, I toggle the function key, > and it's still showing the same data. Likewise, toggling the function > while checking dmesg and tail -f /var/log/syslog shows me nothing new. > > Doing a spot of research, it appears that the RTL8191SEvB should have > a bluetooth feature embedded in it, so I wonder, have I missed a trick > here, is there something else I need to do, or do I write it off, > especially as I have three USB-Bluetooth devices, which I know work > already. > -- > Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs >
As the Ebuyer spec doesn't mention it, then you probably don't have it available. Contrast this with my EEEPC where the spec said it had bluetooth and when I installed Ubuntu on it, the bleutooth icon was there next to the network icon (and it works!). I have googled for something and found at least one reference to a laptop with this chip that had a Broadcom bluetooth chip as well - hardly needed if the RTL8191SEvB would do the job on its own. Tony -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
