Bug 238959

Summary:	Dell D420: Bluetooth only work after restart from Windows Vista
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Patrick Steiner <patrick>
Component:	bluez-libs	Assignee:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2>
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Description Patrick Steiner 2007-05-04 07:45:26 UTC

i have got a dell d420 notebook and bluetooth is only working if i restart from
windows vista. if i power off the notebook, bluetooth doesn't work anymore.

there is now hci0 device available.

i also have installed libsmbios stuff, and this looks like it works ( i can
enable /disable bluetooth). but only the led appears / disappears.

any ideas whats the problem?

Comment 1 Patrick Steiner 2007-05-10 05:44:45 UTC

fter hours of work i finally get the bluetooth working with linux!

the problem is a defect? firmware with the preinstalled windows vista 
notebook.

i have now updated to another firmware after that bluetooth work without 
any problems.  :-) 

an here is a step by step howto. use this on you own risk.

- download the latest bluetooth drivers for windows XP for the d420 
currently this is R117967.exe
- extract it anywhere is used c:\dell\drivers\R117967
- run dfu.exe (from c:\dell\drivers\R117967\2kxp\dfu\ this takes some 
minutes.
- after that blutooth should work in linux but it dont work anymore in 
vista  ;-) 
- this can be fixed by installing the windows xp drivers 
(c:\dell\drivers\R117967\2kxp\setup.exe).
- after that you have to install the new version of the toshiba 
bluetooth stack (dell uses this one)
  from http://aps.toshiba-tro.de/bluetooth/pages/download.php

the only problem i found out is that the new software is only a 30 day 
test version.
but perhaps dell could be so nice and fix this problem.  ;-) 


another way could be to get the working firmware and upload it via the 
dfutool (bluez-utlils). but i don't have tested this yet.