On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 13:24 -0500, max wrote: > Zlatko wrote: > > Hello to everybody, and greetings from Croatia (Europe)... > > > > I need help... > > > > Model of laptop: Toshiba Satellite P200-10C > > > > My integrated bluetooth wont work, unless I do the following: > > > > 1. I start laptop with Windows Vista > > 2. I restart from Vista to Fedora > > > > Each time I do this, bluetooth works fine. But, if I turn off computer, > > and start it again directly to Fedora, bluetooth wont work, and system > > wont recognize any bluetooth device. > > I have described this problem on Fedora forum, also, but nobody answered > > my question so far, even I have posted that post month ago. > > Here is the link to that post: > > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=172988 > > > > If anybody knows how to handle this problem, I'll be very appreciated... > > > > Also, my combination of pressing Fn + (F1-F9) wont work either... > > > > Thanks > > > > > I have seen similar behavior before with a network interface on a dual > boot XP /SuSE box. Look in your BIOS and see if there is a setting for > the onboard bluetooth. My recollection here is a bit foggy, its been > awhile but I believe Vista is disabling bluetooth on shutdown. When you > restart the machine never actually gets turned off. > Something like that anyway but check your BIOS settings. > -Max > Our Acer Extensa 5220 does the same thing, but the BIOS has very few options. It hasn't been a bother for us though, we have no other bluetooth devices to talk to. -- Regards Simon
