Enabling bluetooth on a Toshiba with fnfx

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WARNING: this works on a Toshiba Portege M300, but may not work on every/any other Toshiba

• Upgrade toshiba_acpi see Upgrading Toshiba ACPI to support bluetooth/fnfx/toshset for details
• Install fnfx using YaST (click the option to remove ial when prompted)
• Whilst in YaST, check that bluez-lib & bluez-utils are installed (they should be installed by default in 10.2)
• Start the fnfxd daemon and set it to start on boot

# service fnfxd start
# chkconfig --level 345 fnfxd on

• Press Fn+F8
• Check that Bluetooth is enabled via hcitool:

# hcitool dev
# Devices:
#      hci0    bl:ue:to:ot:hn:um

You should find that a pop-up menu will appear as the device is activated.

Note: you may find that you sometimes need to press Fn+F8 twice

References

Rui Carmo