Comment 22 for bug 284982

My device detection also improved when I added the blueman repo. I haven't tried all the dialup/etc functions, but this fixes my "No such device" problem.

web page:
https://launchpad.net/~blueman/+archive

add these to /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/blueman/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/blueman/ubuntu intrepid main

dpkg -l | grep blue
ii blueman 0.6-r121-0ubuntu3~ppa1i A graphical bluetooth manager
rc bluetooth-alsa 0.5cvs20070908-1 Bluetooth audio for Linux
ii bluetooth3 3.26-0ubuntu14 Bluetooth stack utilities
rc bluez 4.12-0ubuntu5 Bluetooth tools and daemons
rc bluez-audio 3.26-0ubuntu6 Bluetooth audio support
ii bluez-gnome 1.8-0ubuntu1 Bluetooth utilities for GNOME
rc bluez-utils 4.12-0ubuntu5 Transitional package
ii bluez3-audio 3.26-0ubuntu14 Bluetooth audio support
ii bluez3-utils 3.26-0ubuntu14 Bluetooth tools and daemons
ii gnome-bluetooth 0.11.0-0ubuntu3 GNOME Bluetooth tools.
ii libbluetooth-dev 4.19-1ubuntu2 Development files for using the BlueZ Linux Bluetooth library
ii libbluetooth2 3.29-0ubuntu1 Library to use the BlueZ Linux Bluetooth stack
ii libbluetooth3 4.19-1ubuntu2 Library to use the BlueZ Linux Bluetooth stack
ii python-bluez 0.15-1build1 Python wrappers around BlueZ for rapid bluetooth development