Bluetooth Issue on ....

[Karibu]

10 min later: Nothing in BIOS related to Bluetooth or WLAN. One Key at the keyboard allows dis/enable WLAN.

[Karibu]

With 'lspci -v', the system detects the AR9285 Wireless Network Adapte correctly: root@Microknoppix:/home/knoppix# lspci -v

07:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 1461 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17 Memory at f0300000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit- Capabilities: [60] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 00-15-17-ff-ff-24-14-12 Capabilities: [170] Power Budgeting Kernel driver in use: ath9k

The output of 'lsmod' shows all modules for AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter are there but still not enabled. root@Microknoppix:/home/knoppix# lsmod

btusb 8018 0 bluetooth 89635 4 rfcomm,btusb . . . ath9k 61648 0 mac80211 155646 1 ath9k ath9k_common 1298 1 ath9k snd_hda_intel 15588 1 ath9k_hw 235895 2 ath9k,ath9k_common snd_hda_codec 41968 3 snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel ath 10502 2 ath9k,ath9k_hw .

I googled a lot without success..Is there hope?

[Karibu]

YES, there is hope....! Knoppix-USB is Awesome! Fast, Flexible, Rock Solid! How I got Bluetooth working: 1) ---> Menu ---> Preferences ---> Desktop Session Settings - --> check mark on Bluetooth Manager ---> OK 2) ---> Menu ---> Preferences ---> S.P.M. (Synaptic P...) ---> Reload Packages and afterwards mark the packages 'bluetooth', 'bluez' and related blue* packages for upgrade! 3) After that was finished, the Bluetooth Icon appeared at the menu bar and Bluetooth was ready to go! Now, the neat part is, after restart all the new settings and upgrades are store at the USB stick and available again! Connected to the Laptop are Desktop PC, Printer, Cellphone, (wireless mouse and WiFi)! Thanks Knoppix Team ...way to go!