Troubleshooting Bluetooth on Kali

[SumitUniyal]

Hello,

I have a Dell Laptop ( Latitude E6400 ), where I have installed Kali. The wireless is working, but bluetooth is not working.
After reading several forums, and online blogs and trying what has been mentioned I have had no luck. Can someone guide me on what I am missing.
Below are the output of some of the commands.

root@kali:/usr/share/doc/bluez/examples# uname -a
Linux kali 3.18.0-kali3-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.18.6-1~kali2 (2015-03-02) x86_64 GNU/Linux

root@kali:/usr/share/doc/bluez/examples# hcitool dev
Devices:

root@kali:/usr/share/doc/bluez/examples# hcitool scan
Device is not available: No such device

root@kali:/usr/share/doc/bluez/examples# aptitude install bluetooth
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.

root@kali:/usr/share/doc/bluez/examples# /etc/init.d/bluetooth status
[FAIL] bluetooth is not running ... failed!

root@kali:/usr/share/doc/bluez/examples# /etc/init.d/bluetooth start
[ ok ] Starting bluetooth: bluetoothd rfcomm.

root@kali:/usr/share/doc/bluez/examples# lspci | grep -i blue
-- Nothing

root@kali:/usr/share/doc/bluez/examples# lsusb | grep -i blue
-- Nothing

root@kali:/usr/share/doc/bluez/examples# dmesg | grep -i blue
[ 4371.748593] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.19
[ 4371.748613] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 4371.748621] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 4371.748623] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 4371.748629] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[16158.116391] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[16158.116394] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[16158.116402] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
[16158.144348] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[16158.144407] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[16158.144412] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11

rfkill list
0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

[SCSIJumper]

What is the brand and the model of your bluetooth device?

[SumitUniyal]

I am not using external Bluetooth device i.e. Bluetooth is integrated on the motherboard.
Now sure how to find that out ?
Dell link for the Laptop : http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/.../configuration

[village_idiot]

Your link displays that the Bluetooth device is
a Dell Wireless 370 Bluetooth Minicard, v.6.2.0.9603,
A02-1 proprietary device.

Does 'lsusb' reveal a Bluetooth device attached?
You should see a line in the return for 'lsusb' like
the following line:

Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0a5c:4500 Broadcom Corp. BCM2046B1 USB 2.0 Hub (part of BCM2046 Bluetooth)

or similar device. It may be another vendor
than Broadcom, look for the Bluetooth reference
in the line. You may find you have to download
a third party vendors driver and load it on your
machine before Linux can speak to the minicard.

If you do not have a line identifying the
hardware device in the listing for 'lsusb'
than check to verify any hardware
switch for your wireless devices are
in the 'ON' position. Let me know your
outcome.

I found the process to be convoluted. In my
case Dell would not list the appropriate driver
on their website for Linux. It fell back to the
chipset manufacturer providing drivers, not Dell,
that would run my chipset in the Linux
environment and even then it was not a straight
forward process in my opinion.

VI