Zlatko wrote:

Hello to everybody, and greetings from Croatia (Europe)...

I need help...

Model of laptop: Toshiba Satellite P200-10C

My integrated bluetooth wont work, unless I do the following:

1. I start laptop with Windows Vista
2. I restart from Vista to Fedora

Each time I do this, bluetooth works fine. But, if I turn off computer, and start it again directly to Fedora, bluetooth wont work, and system wont recognize any bluetooth device. I have described this problem on Fedora forum, also, but nobody answered my question so far, even I have posted that post month ago. Here is the link to that post: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=172988

If anybody knows how to handle this problem, I'll be very appreciated...

Also, my combination of pressing Fn + (F1-F9) wont work either...

Thanks

I have seen similar behavior before with a network interface on a dual boot XP /SuSE box. Look in your BIOS and see if there is a setting for the onboard bluetooth. My recollection here is a bit foggy, its been awhile but I believe Vista is disabling bluetooth on shutdown. When you restart the machine never actually gets turned off. Something like that anyway but check your BIOS settings.

-Max

I have Toshiba Satellite A200-1MY, and I had the same problem with Fedora 8. I tried something that really switched the bluetooth device on and this was really strange, I Restarted my Laptop, logged in to windows vista(Shipped with the laptop) and I turned of the Bluetooth Radio ON, using the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack, a program came with the windows developed by toshiba.

When I returned back to Fedora, I could see the bluetooth device on and I could transfer files.

When I tried

# hciconfig down hci0 and went back to Windows, I found the radio still turned on, so it seems that in Toshiba Laptops the Radio has to be turned on using the software shipped with the laptop!

I dun like this solution at all, I'm searching for a way to start the Radio using fedora and I can't find one.

Any Solution?! :)