Linux Bluetooth “Device is not available: Success”

posted by Michael Cutler on August 2, 2005 @ 17:11

Categories: Linux

Symptom

Trying to use hcitool returns the ambiguous error message "Device is not available: Success"

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CODE:
  1. [root@localhost ~]# hcitool scan
  2. Device is not available: Success
  3. [root@localhost ~]#

Solution

Start 'Bluetooth services' you monkey :'( .... I fell for this one and it took maybe half an hour of fiddling before I realised there was a /etc/init.d/bluetooth and that it wasn't running.

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CODE:
  1. [root@localhost ~]# /etc/init.d/bluetooth start
  2. Starting Bluetooth services:                               [  OK  ]
  3. [root@localhost ~]# hcitool scan
  4. Scanning ...

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