Our hardware is almost identical, yet my bluetooth works and yours doesnt. >From your dmesg:
[17179613.324000] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized [17179613.324000] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized [17179613.380000] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.8 [17179613.380000] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized [17179613.400000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized [17179613.400000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized [17179613.400000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.7 So it looks like you definitely have bluetooth. Im actually running kubuntu, so perhaps this is a gnome-bluetooth issue? Im not a developer, Im just trying to fill in the picture for when someone more knowledgeable looks at this :) -- Bluetooth not discovered on Dell Inspiron 9400 https://launchpad.net/bugs/37288 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs