Kevin's World: Fedora 15 Bluetooth

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Fedora 15 Bluetooth

After I upgraded from Fedora 14 to Fedora 15 I found that Gnome was not showing my bluetooth devices and in fact it didn't detect any. However, lsusb found them with no problems.

I found bug #695588 at RedHat and it looked like systemctl may have not started it.

#systemctl status bluetooth.service

bluetooth.service - Bluetooth Manager

      Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service)

      Active: inactive (dead)

      CGroup: name=systemd:/system/bluetooth.service

#systemctl enable bluetooth.service

ln -s '/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service' '/etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.bluez.service'

ln -s '/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service' '/etc/systemd/system/bluetooth.target.wants/bluetooth.service'

#systemctl start bluetooth.service

After running those three commands, gnome now shows my devices.


Bluetooth devices

18 comments:

Rob Whalley said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 5:41 AM
Rob Whalley said...: Worked like a charm ;) Very helpful, thanks!; 5:59 AM
Unknown said...: Thanks for the tip! this worked nicely for me.; 3:31 PM
Rod said...: Kevin you rock. I was thinking I would have to wait until Fedora 15 went final. Thanks a lot.; 7:27 PM
bioinfornatics said...: Thanks it works :); 6:06 AM
Todor said...: Thanks it works now!; 2:26 AM
Todor said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 2:27 AM
Данечкин said...: thanx, it works!; 7:42 AM
Marcell said...: Fantastic. Thank you!; 1:31 PM
saleh said...: yep....thanku...; 10:29 AM
Ranjan said...: thanks man , it worked ! But its strange still in the final release its like this. How can we say fedora is beginner friendly :(; 7:25 AM
Michael said...: Hey, I'm getting access denied. Any idea why?; 4:06 AM
Michael said...: Actually I meant permission denied. Thanks before hand; 4:12 AM
Hashan Gayasri said...: for permission denied-

su -c 'service bluetooth restart'; 9:51 PM
Zeek said...: Thanks! Worked like a charm!; 3:34 AM
Sh@doW h4K3r said...: brother can you help me out with the wireless device...which having same problem as ur bluetooth..its doesnot shows me the option of wireless networking
how to fix that..
ny help will be great
thank you; 2:58 AM
Kamtono said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10:25 PM
Kamtono said...: it get me crazy .... after some step finalizing the lovelock... i know it's getting weird why no one bluetooth service on the /etc/rc.d/init.d/....

thanks my bro... you're the man; 10:26 PM