Linux Bluetooth “Device is not available: Success”

Symptom

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

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

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

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Published:
2nd August 2005 / 5:08pm
Category:
Linux

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