Question : Enabling bluetooth in Ubuntu 10.04

My system supports bluetooth, because I see the bluetooth sign on the front side.

It is a DELL Studio XPS system.

srikanth@srikanth-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install bluez && sudo apt-get install bluez-utils
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
bluez is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  postfix odbcinst1debian1 nvidia-195-kernel-source libass3 odbcinst unixodbc
  libdb4.6 bsd-mailx
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
bluez-utils is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  postfix odbcinst1debian1 nvidia-195-kernel-source libass3 odbcinst unixodbc
  libdb4.6 bsd-mailx
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

srikanth@srikanth-laptop:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/bluetooth status
* bluetooth is not running
srikanth@srikanth-laptop:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/bluetooth start
srikanth@srikanth-laptop:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/bluetooth status
 * bluetooth is not running

Please suggest what should I do.

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Bluetooth preferences.

Answer : Enabling bluetooth in Ubuntu 10.04

Bluetooth support is bundled with Ubuntu by default, just because the icon shows does not mean you have bluetooth present.

Can you give the output of lspci and lsusb, I can then see if you have a bluetooth adapter present.