No Bluetooth on Ubuntu because of Bluesoleil
For quite some time I simply couldn’t get Ubuntu to recognize my bluetooth adapter! I knew it worked because when I got the adapter and tried the provided software (Which just happened to be Bluesoleil) everything worked. After deciding not to use the proprietary software i removed it and the adapter stopped working.
Running the general command to start up bluetooth only gave a cryptic message..
Can't open HCI socket: Address family not supported by protocol (97)
After googling around lead me to the fact that some kernel modules wern’t loaded for bluetooth. “Heh” I though since it WAS working fine before. So I tried to enable the missing modules as per some other instructions:
FATAL: Could not open '/lib/modules/2.6.27-9-generic/kernel/net/bluetooth/bluetooth.ko': No such file or directory
again.. more head scratching.. so after going to where the missing bluetooth.ko file should be located i find bluetooth.ko.bak instead. since there is no bluetooth.ko file I just removed the .bak extension and retried modprobe again.
Success! As to why it was a .bak file I had NO idea until i googled it. I found another user with the same .bak file which commented on bluesoleil doing the move. So I finally find the culprit of my bluetooth despair!
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