• Bluetooth Gone

    From Gary Morrison@mr88cet@texas.net to comp.sys.mac.system on Sunday, April 09, 2006 14:57:42
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    On my 1.5GHz, 17" G4 PowerBook, the bluetooth thingie at the top right
    of the thing has a wavey line through it and it says "Bluetooth Not
    Available" when I click on it.

    I think I recall that I used to have a Bluetooth "System Preferences"
    panel, but I can't seem to find it anywhere now. Presumably that means
    that some file(s) related to Bluetooth got zapped.

    Do any of you know what file(s) I would need to restore from backups to re-enable Bluetooth? Presumably some files in Library?

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  • From Ilgaz Ocal@ilgaz_ocal@yahoo.com to comp.sys.mac.system on Sunday, April 09, 2006 19:02:37
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    On 2006-04-09 17:57:42 +0300, Gary Morrison <mr88cet@texas.net> said:

    On my 1.5GHz, 17" G4 PowerBook, the bluetooth thingie at the top right
    of the thing has a wavey line through it and it says "Bluetooth Not Available" when I click on it.

    I think I recall that I used to have a Bluetooth "System Preferences"
    panel, but I can't seem to find it anywhere now. Presumably that means
    that some file(s) related to Bluetooth got zapped.

    Do any of you know what file(s) I would need to restore from backups to re-enable Bluetooth? Presumably some files in Library?

    If it is "Panther" (10.3.x) give a shot to http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120276 . As it uses
    "Installer" architecture naturally , it won't replace new files with
    old files thus not breaking anything.

    For Tiger (10.4.x) I suggest getting latest "combo update" and (re)applying it.

    Ilgaz

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  • From Gary Morrison@mr88cet@texas.net to comp.sys.mac.system on Sunday, April 09, 2006 21:39:46
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    Ilgaz Ocal wrote:

    For Tiger (10.4.x) I suggest getting latest "combo update" and
    (re)applying it.

    OK, so then the updaters will only contain new or changed files, but
    things that did not change from the previous release? (I'm supposing
    that the Bluetooth stuff may not have changed from the previous version
    to the current version, not that I know either way.)

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  • From Mat Cvetic@invalid@invalid.net to comp.sys.mac.system on Monday, April 10, 2006 17:08:00
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    In article <Gh9_f.9598$_26.2745@tornado.texas.rr.com>,
    Gary Morrison <mr88cet@texas.net> wrote:

    On my 1.5GHz, 17" G4 PowerBook, the bluetooth thingie at the top right
    of the thing has a wavey line through it and it says "Bluetooth Not Available" when I click on it.

    I think I recall that I used to have a Bluetooth "System Preferences"
    panel, but I can't seem to find it anywhere now. Presumably that means
    that some file(s) related to Bluetooth got zapped.

    Do any of you know what file(s) I would need to restore from backups to re-enable Bluetooth? Presumably some files in Library?

    You're not booted in Single User mode, are you? (Cmd-S at startup, I
    think) I found Bluetooth doesn't work right in that mode.
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  • From Gary Morrison@mr88cet@texas.net to comp.sys.mac.system on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 02:03:30
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    Mat Cvetic wrote:

    You're not booted in Single User mode, are you? (Cmd-S at startup, I
    think) I found Bluetooth doesn't work right in that mode.

    That's an interesting though. I'm certainly not depressing any keys on boot-up.

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  • From Ilgaz Ocal@ilgaz_ocal@yahoo.com to comp.sys.mac.system on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 16:29:08
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    On 2006-04-10 00:39:46 +0300, Gary Morrison <mr88cet@texas.net> said:

    Ilgaz Ocal wrote:

    For Tiger (10.4.x) I suggest getting latest "combo update" and (re)applying it.

    OK, so then the updaters will only contain new or changed files, but
    things that did not change from the previous release? (I'm supposing
    that the Bluetooth stuff may not have changed from the previous version
    to the current version, not that I know either way.)

    I wanted to save you from re installing OS X (and perhaps it won't work
    again) :) It is the usual way for me to fix things, they generally have updated versions for all files between 10.4.0 and 10.4.6

    You may try the newly shipped Pacifist 2.0 to try to restore bluetooth frameworks etc. Thing is, it is not "mail.app", it is like a layer on
    OS X so may be hard to find what is needed.

    http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/12743

    Don't forget to keep "combo update" handy, you need to run it after
    restoring files.

    Ilgaz

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