As it happens I found a partial solution to this problem. Because bluetooth did not work under Linux I booted Vista, turned on the bluetooth (using software), went about my bluetooth business and shut Vista down, without disabling it with the software. When I rebooted Ubuntu bluetooth-applet worked flawlessly.
However, this means there is a boolean value somewhere which the applet does not make use of. If ever it is set to false bluetooth will no longer work. -- Bluetooth not discovered on Dell Inspiron 9400 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/37288 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs