[PLUG] Debian Sid, Bluetooth, and IBM Thinkpad?

Mike Connors mconnors1 at gmail.com
Sun Jan 31 21:09:02 UTC 2010


John Jason Jordan wrote:
> I assume you have tried a live CD. If not, try one of the bleeding edge
> ones like Karmic, Mint, or Fedora. I have used all of the above at one
> time or another, and they found the bluetooth device in my T61 and
> automatically configured it. 
>   
Good suggestion that I didn't think of. Heck, Sidux is a liveCD so I could just
run that and see what I get.

> Oh, and here is a really dumb suggestion. On my T61 there is a radio
> slide switch on the front. Its function is to kill all radios by
> physically disconnecting them. 
>   
*ALL* radios, eh? I thought it was just the wifi. But it is enabled as I'm using
the onboard wireless. I saw a few postings mention fn+F5 to toggle the Infrared.
However, when I use that key combo the wireless  LED  goes out. And the graphic 
on the F5 button seems to match the graphic on the wireless switch. Which is 
different than the graphic on the infrared port, which made think the switch 
was only for the wifi device.

> And as long as I'm insulting you with suggestions that I'm sure you've
> already tried, there is the BIOS. 
Actually when I checked the BIOS there was 2 settings for Infrared. One was for
the physical port which had IRQ, and Memory settings. And the 2nd one was for something
that I can't recall now but was disabled. 

Don't ever worry about insulting me with asking dumb / obvious questions. Often times in 
troubleshooting these are the ones people are afraid to ask or make assumptions about and then
small easy problems become big difficult ones...






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