Phoenix BIOS and bluetooth

Hey guys I dunno how much will this apply to your laptop but this was really useful to me as I’m using a laptop(Toshiba A200-130) with Phoenix BOIS with inbuilt blue-tooth.
In my laptop I have blue-tooth inbuilt so I just have to press the button to turn it on and off and it worked pretty well when I was using Vista (it’s the OS which this laptop came with don’t have it anymore ). But after installing Mint I couldn’t make it work. I was so upset with that because to get some images from my phone I had to use the cable. I tried so many things such as installing the toshset package etc. and I wasted a lot of time(but its all worth it ) doing those still no use blue-tooth is not working. I talked with the guys in the Mint IRC channel nope they didn’t have an answer too but for my amusement when I reboot from Vista it works and that made me thinking what the hell is wrong and I told the guys in the Mint IRC again about that but still they didn’t know may be they didn’t think in that way(that there is something wrong with the BIOS).
Then finally after searching a lot in ubuntu forums and all I found the answer that is the Omnibook module(as i can remember Chathura told me about that but I’m not sure ). But yet again thats about Phoenix BIOS what is Phoenix BIOS?? I didn’t know but I have seen it somewhere but couldn’t remember where. So I didn’t install it. But on the next day when I turned on the laptop I saw it the Phoenix logo #:-s finally I remembered where I have seen the logo then I installed it and now its working
So now I’m gonna tell you guys how to do it:
So first and foremost you have to install the necessary dependencies those are
Code:
subversion
build-essential
linux-source
linux-headers-generic

To install those you have to use this command
Code:$ sudo apt-get install subversion build-essential linux-source linux-headers-generic

Then you have to create a folder in your home directory called as omnibook and use the svn to download the latest omnibook module source
Code:
$ cd ~
$ mkdir omnibook
$ cd omnibook
$ svn co https://omnibook.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/omnibook/omnibook/trunk

When downloading it done you have to go to the trunk folder
Code:
$ cd trunk

Now you have to build and install the module
Code:
$ make
$ sudo make install

And then load the module by giving the following command which will run the depmod and modprobe
Code:
$ sudo make load

Now you have to go to the /proc/omnibook which will exist now
Code:
$ cd /proc/omnibook
$ ls

Now in my case when I went to the /proc/omnibook I saw just
dmi
version
but if you have other files like wifi, bluetooth, lcd, temparature, touchpad, or others, then your machine is supported. But if dmi and version are the only files you have then your laptop is not supported, This becomes really interesting when it comes to Toshiba laptops but if the laptop you have is not Toshiba I’ll tell you the workaround later on but if your laptop is supported then,
You can enable blue-tooth by giving the following command
Code:
$ sudo su
# echo 1 > bluetooth

and you can disable blue-tooth by
Code:
$ sudo su
# echo 0 > bluetooth

Instead of using the root console to enable and disable this module you can use the “userser=1″ option this is how to do it:
Code:
$ sudo depmod -a
$ sudo modprobe omnibook userset=1

And now we reached the interesting part but before that I have to WARN you that is:

Warning! Force load in unsupported machines will may result in unpredictable results!!

so you have to be careful when doing this and also remember I have warned!! you ok then here it goes
This is the place you have to encounter the “ectype” option( in my case it was ectype=12 and there are ectypes from 10 to 14 you can check those if your one doesn’t work with 12)
When you load the module you have to use the command given
Code:
$ sudo depmod -a
$ sudo modprobe omnibook ectype=12

and now you should be able to see the list of files in /proc/omnibook
blank
bluetooth
display
dmi
hotkeys
lcd
temperature
touchpad
version
wifi

but still if you can’t see these modules and you are using a Toshiba laptop just give me some more time

Now you have to make this module start on boot for that first make a file called omnibook.modprobe in /etc/modprobe.d/ and place the module options in it:
Code:
options omnibook ectype=12 userset=1

and then append “omnibook” to /etc/modules to load it at boot:
Code:
$ sudo su
# echo “omnibook” > /etc/modules

Ok then now we are done! thank you for waiting if you still can’t see the earlier list of files. This is was really disturbing for me too at the beginning but it’s something to do with the Toshiba laptops to make the modules work you have to turn off the laptop for some time like 30mins or so( don’t ask me how it happens have no clue about it but it works ).
Bye for now :-h

Note:
I got all this all this information form http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=316358.

~~ Rusiru Boteju ~~