Bluetooth Not Working In Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

hi there,
i have a sony vaio with an intel 3 processor and 4gb of ram which runs mint 17.1 cinnamon as well as ubuntu 14.04 unity along with ubuntu 14.10 gnome ... had windows 8 preinstalled which i formatted ... however my bluetooth did function and recognise my phone (sony xperia Z1) when on windows ... but in mint and ubuntu though the bluetooth seems to function, it does not recognise/show any device and is not seen on any of my devices(tablet or phone) ... have checked and there are no hard or soft blocks ... have also installed mtp on each with no success...
need this so that i can recieve calls on my laptop ... at the moment can only see alerts and reply as well as send text messages using airdroid ....
someone please help
thanks in advance

I ran sudo ifconfig and I got:

eth0,lo,and pan1

Pan1? After googling it, I found out that it has to do with bluetooth. But I am not working with bluetooth right now! What is going on. Should I switch it off?

I have a own compilation of 3.16.2 kernel working fine in my pavilion 14, it is working fine, but the "Ralink corp. RT3290" driver for bluetooth dont is configured, so, I try to compile a new stabtle version, first the 3.16.3 and now the 3.18.3, but it do not boot, what I have to do to get it work?

thank's

peace

Hello everybody,

I am seeking help regarding sharing internet connection. I would be greatful.

I have;
A Laptop : Samsung RV509, i3, 300GB HDD, 3GB Ram, Dual boot Windows7 & LM 17 cinnamon 32bit. WiFi & Bluetooth available. A Desktop PC : Celeron CPU 2.4GHZ, 40 GB HDD, 1GB RAM, LiveUSB-LM 17 cinnamon 32bit, No WiFi hardware available, No Bluetooth hardware available. A mobile phone : Nokia Asha 500, WiFi & Bluetooth available. An old USB data cable: with which the mobile phone can be connected to the computers. I have successfully connected and transfered data back & forth, and also shared/connected Mobile-Broadband-internet to both Laptop and Desktop.

What I have been doing now is; I have an internet connection to my Laptop with an external modem and Ethernet. Its working fine. I have an unlimited plan and so I want to share this internet connection on the mobile phone too; instead of incuring extra cost by connecting to the internet directly through the phone. I am successful at that. I can share this internet connection on my phone through WiFi.

Now, what I want to do is; without buying any extra hardware, to share this same internet connection on my Desktop PC, too.

What I tried is; I searched the web, but didn't find any solution. Now I am here. Please kindly help me.

Thank you & Regards

Anil

I am very new to Linux but I want to be able to have Ubuntu set up so that whenever a new file is added via Dropbox to a folder it will automatically print to multiple Bluetooth printers. Is this difficult? Any advice? Thanks guys!

Hello there,
i've just installed the ubuntu 1.4 version in my laptop alongside a version of windows 7. The problem is that while working with ubuntu i cannot operate the wifi connection to my modem, looks like the driver is not working, any ideas?
thank you in advance

i have windows 8.1 and ubuntu 14.04 ....now wen i try to access a drive of windows in ubuntu it says failed to mount.
then i used "sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda4" for mounting the drives ......it worked for all drives except the E drive (not the system drive).
it gives error windows is hibernated , shutdown windows.
I shutdown my windows properly but still that particular drive refuses to mount..
any solns?

I have windows 7 laptop, Dell. I downloaded the newest edition of Ubuntu (Twice)to see if it would install and dual boot beside Windows 7. Unsucessful on several attempts. Once I reboot the computer it will give ma a choice of 7 or Ubuntu. I decide on Ubuntu it starts to boot into Ubuntu than a black screen with all types of Kernel error codes that i'm unfamilur with. one is---(1.292618) kernel panic-not syncing: no working init found.

Try passing init option to Kernel (see Linux Documentation/init.txt for guidance..

I am not sure what all this means any help would be appreactiated...

Hi Everyone
i m working on ns2.35 ubuntu 12.04
when i follow these steps for olsr patching
all commands ran without error

cd ns-allinone-2.35/ns-2.35/
tar zxvf um-olsr-1.0.tgz
ln -s ./um-olsr-1.0 ./um-olsr
patch -p1 < um-olsr/um-olsr_ns-2.35_v1.0.patch

but while running the olsr.tcl
it again shows the same error
invalid command name "Agent/OLSR"
while executing
"Agent/OLSR set use_mac_ true"
(file "olsr.tcl" line 38)
please help me , thnx in advance

Greetings All,

I'm NEW to Linux 13.10. I'm getting a error message on start up.
In the past, I would just press S to skip mounting. That is NOT
working any more.

Error Message : An error occurred while mounting/mnt/3F3C-1AF6.
Press S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery

Is there a command, that I can use to continue to boot or at
least find out what is wrong with my Ubuntu 13.10?
When I press S or M .... nothing happens.

Thanks in advance!

PEACE to ALL .... MJ