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toshset package

[Toshiba Notebooks] Bluetooth not turned on by default

Bug #179728 reported by Paul Weiss
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Bug Description

The Bluetooth in Toshiba notebooks should be working out of the box, so by posting this I hope Hardy Heron will have this fixed. Right now you can get it working (Thanks to Tim Anderson):

Solution would be to add a startscript when a Toshiba-notebook is detected.

Taken from: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=560475

Create startscript with this content:
---
#! /bin/bash

# script to start/stop Toshiba Bluetooth adapter
# requires toshset

case "$1" in
start)
/usr/bin/toshset -bluetooth on
;;
stop)
/usr/bin/toshset -bluetooth off
;;
*)
echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/tosh-bluetooth {start|stop}" >&2
exit 1
;;

esac

exit 0
---

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Andreas Moog (ampelbein) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

Changed in toshset:
assignee: nobody → andreas-moog
status: New → Incomplete
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Paul Weiss (interweiss) wrote :

Yes, this bug still exists.

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Andreas Moog (ampelbein) wrote :

I edited your original description to better reflect the problem and solution.

Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!

description: updated
Changed in toshset:
assignee: andreas-moog → nobody
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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Angel Guzman Maeso (shakaran) wrote :

I can also confirm this bug in Toshiba Satellite M60-126 in Ubuntu 8.04

But in this model of Toshiba, this workaround not working

See bug 174998 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/toshset/+bug/174998

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Paul Weiss (interweiss) wrote :

Still around in 8.10 Beta 1....

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Andrew Simpson (adpsimpson-gmail) wrote :

There has been a regression here in 8.10. While in previous versions of Ubuntu toshset could be used relatively easily to turn bluetooth on and off, it no longer works.

This has been documented in other places, eg bug 269831 - the toshiba and toshiba_acpi modules are no longer provided.

Recompiling the kernel (2.6.27) with these drivers as modules (no other changes) still doesn't allow toshset to work. This is on a Portege R500, on which toshset previously worked fine:

$ sudo modprobe toshiba
$ sudo modprobe toshiba_acpi
FATAL: Error inserting toshiba_acpi (/lib/modules/2.6.27.2toshiba/kernel/drivers/acpi/toshiba_acpi.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)

$ sudo toshset -q
toshset: this computer is not supported

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Andrew Simpson (adpsimpson-gmail) wrote :

I've managed to get toshiba_acpi and toshset running on 8.10 - see my post in the forum:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6203606#post6203606
Also discussion on bug 269831 - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/269831

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Seva Gluschenko (gvs-ya) wrote :

The workaround found here: http://dvoina.blogspot.com/2009/10/bluetooth-driver-for-toshiba-u400-13k.html

This is pretty enlightened version of omnibook module which should work quite well for all those who has bluetooth initialized but undetectable.

Yet it can't be considered the fix.

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Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Can you reproduce this with a supported Ubuntu version? Thank you!

Changed in toshset (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for toshset (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in toshset (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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