{"id":978,"date":"2008-01-11T11:12:57","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T01:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/11\/enabling-bluetooth-on-a-hp-laptop-6710b-iirc\/"},"modified":"2008-01-11T11:12:57","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T01:12:57","slug":"enabling-bluetooth-on-a-hp-laptop-6710b-iirc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/11\/enabling-bluetooth-on-a-hp-laptop-6710b-iirc\/","title":{"rendered":"Enabling bluetooth on a hp laptop (6710b IIRC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine has a HP 6710b (if i remember the model name correctly). Bluetooth wasn&#8217;t working. Nada&#8230; not even a USB device showing up in lsusb for the inbuilt bluetooth.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out, if you disable the bluetooth radio from the Windows thingy, it does something you <strong>cannot<\/strong> undo from Linux (at least with Ubuntu Gutsy) .<\/p>\n<p>Except&#8230; after hours of fucking around, we reset the BIOS to default settings and this made it work.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, no option in the BIOS setup to do this (there&#8217;s an Enable\/Disable switch&#8230; but that doesn&#8217;t fix this problem). But a reset does it.<\/p>\n<p>I really hope this saves somebody else the hours of &#8220;fun&#8221; we had.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine has a HP 6710b (if i remember the model name correctly). Bluetooth wasn&#8217;t working. Nada&#8230; not even a USB device showing up in lsusb for the inbuilt bluetooth. It turns out, if you disable the bluetooth &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/11\/enabling-bluetooth-on-a-hp-laptop-6710b-iirc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grumble"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-fM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":483,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/10\/gnulinux-and-the-k750i-bluetooth-remote\/","url_meta":{"origin":978,"position":0},"title":"GNU\/Linux and the K750i Bluetooth Remote","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2005-10-10","format":false,"excerpt":"GNU\/Linux and the K750i Bluetooth Remote Works with my K700i too. 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