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fhsm

#! Junkie

From: New Hampshire, USA

Registered: 2009-01-05

Posts: 443

Fixing EeePC 1005HA bluetooth disabled / not recognized

I've got an EeePC 1005HA with Statler and Win 7 on it. For no apparent reason my bluetooth stopped working after I enabled and updated with backports. I've spent hours today trying to figure out what was going on. Both #! and win 7 claimed I didn't have the hardware installed at all.

I tried disable/enable in the BIOS and the fn+f2 tricks in windows. Rebooting, probing, drivers, new applets, etc without any success. Same story on windows. I finally solved the problem and thought I'd share. I've got no idea what the problem was, I've got no idea why this fixes it but:

• go to http://support.asus.com/download/

• Search and find your model (1005HA in my case)

• Select win 7 as your OS (Linux doesn't work)

• Go to utilities on the downloads links

• Download the ASUS LiveUpdate utility.

• Install it on Win 7

• Run the LiveUpdate utility

• It will find a BIOS update

• Select and install the BIOS update (it gives easy to follow instructions)

• Reboot into Win 7 & let be while it does a very long driver search

• After a while it will say that it's installed v 2.1 of the bluetooth software.

• Problem solved under both #! and Win 7.

I'd previously tried to install v2.1 of the bluetooth driver/UI from the ASUS downloads and it failed claiming I didn't have a bluetooth card in my system. Why this BIOS update worked I can't say. Why bluetooth stopped working after a backports update is equally mysterious. I realize this post is a bit irritating given that it requires windows; however, I'd have bought a copy of windows to get this damn thing working 3 hours ago, so here it is.

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