Comments on: Broken Bluetooth http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/10/17/broken-bluetooth/ Things that Eric A. Meyer, CSS expert, writes about on his personal Web site; it's largely Web standards and Web technology, but also various bits of culture, politics, personal observations, and other miscellaneous stuff Fri, 10 May 2013 11:50:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: DanielBergey.com [back in baltimore] http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/10/17/broken-bluetooth/#comment-1317 DanielBergey.com [back in baltimore] Mon, 18 Oct 2004 06:10:18 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/10/17/broken-bluetooth/#comment-1317 Bluetooth 911
Eric Meyer’s bluetooth module was acting up:

So I just noticed that my PowerBook no longer realizes that it has a Bluetooth module installed. I get a little “broken B” icon in the menu bar, and when I open the menu it says in greyed-o…

]]> By: Eric http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/10/17/broken-bluetooth/#comment-1314 Eric Mon, 18 Oct 2004 03:21:14 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/10/17/broken-bluetooth/#comment-1314 That fixed it, Daniel; thanks! Something else odd happened, though: after resetting the PMU as described, the computer clock was reset to UNIX zero time: it thought the month was December 1969. A quick NTP server hit reset it, of course, but it was still just a touch odd. Given that this fixed things, I’m guessing that letting the battery drain out was the cause of the problem. If I have this problem again, I may try the alternate proposal of shutting down and removing the battery for a few minutes before booting back up, just to see if the date is lost that way as well.

I was having a similar experience, Scott: the Profiler didn’t see the BT hardware at all. After the PMU reset, it showed back up on one of my USB busses. Weird. I guess it just goes to show that Macs also get funky from time to time. At least I didn’t have to completely re-install the OS, though…

]]> By: Scott Boms http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/10/17/broken-bluetooth/#comment-1313 Scott Boms Mon, 18 Oct 2004 02:49:34 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/10/17/broken-bluetooth/#comment-1313 I’ve had a similar problem happen on two machines in which I’ve essentially lost the Firewire ports. First on an old blue and white G3 and then on a G4 Cube. It’s kind of distressing that Apple System Profiler can’t even see them. Strangely, if I plug my iPod into one of the ports it still charges but won’t mount on the desktop.

Hopefully for you resetting the PMU works. Maybe it will for me too.

]]> By: Daniel http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/10/17/broken-bluetooth/#comment-1312 Daniel Mon, 18 Oct 2004 02:43:21 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/10/17/broken-bluetooth/#comment-1312 Mine did that shortly after I bought my PowerBook. I don’t remember if it was after an update or not, though. Apparently you have to reset the PMU to fix that problem. I think that’s what I did.

http://www.macintouch.com/bluetooth03.html#apr26

‘Good luck’,

Daniel

]]> By: Ups and Downs and Everything Beyond FireWire Failures Spread like Wildfire http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/10/17/broken-bluetooth/#comment-1587 Ups and Downs and Everything Beyond FireWire Failures Spread like Wildfire Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/10/17/broken-bluetooth/#comment-1587 [...] off those drives is going to end up costing a lot of money. This almost sounds similar to Eric Meyer’s recent experience with his PowerBook’s BlueTooth hardware [...]

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