{"id":333,"date":"2007-09-21T15:56:18","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T14:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=333"},"modified":"2007-09-21T15:56:18","modified_gmt":"2007-09-21T14:56:18","slug":"fixing-bluetooth-on-a-toshiba-with-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/333-fixing-bluetooth-on-a-toshiba-with-ubuntu.html","title":{"rendered":"Fixing Bluetooth on a Toshiba with Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been running Ubuntu Linux on my Toshiba laptop. One of the few things that did not work initially was the internal Bluetooth adapter. Ubuntu knew it was there: it shows in Device Manager as “Platform Device (bluetooth)”. But all the utilities behaved as if no Bluetooth adapter was available.<\/p>\n

It looked like a driver problem so I ferreted around looking for a driver. That wasn’t it though. The problem is simply that by default the Bluetooth adapter is turned off. It can only be turned on in software using a Toshiba utility. Toshiba does not provide this for Linux, but fortunately it has been reverse engineered. So the solution is to install toshset<\/a>, which you can do easily from Synaptic Package Manager. Then you open a terminal and type:<\/p>\n

sudo toshset -bluetooth on<\/p>\n

and it all starts working. I installed gnome-bluetooth and successfully sent files to and from my mobile phone (Samsung i600).<\/p>\n

Not difficult once you know; but it wasn’t obvious what to do after the initial install failed to give working Bluetooth. The pain of being in the minority.<\/p>\n

Technorati tags: ubunto<\/a>, bluetooth<\/a>, toshiba<\/a>, i600<\/a>, linux<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been running Ubuntu Linux on my Toshiba laptop. One of the few things that did not work initially was the internal Bluetooth adapter. Ubuntu knew it was there: it shows in Device Manager as “Platform Device (bluetooth)”. But all the utilities behaved as if no Bluetooth adapter was available. It looked like a driver … Continue reading Fixing Bluetooth on a Toshiba with Ubuntu<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}