Enabling bluetooth without windows installation

[acid_kewpie]

Howdy,

Can anyone shed any light on how I can enable bluetooth on my Edge 0301 laptop having cleverly wiped off windows before installing Linux on it. As I understand it, in order to access the bluetooth USB device in the first place I need to enable it, which seems to only be possible with the windows driver or the linux thinkpad_acpi driver (which doesn't appear to work on the Edge laptops yet, even when instructed to ignore the hardware model). I do have a Win7 KVM virtual machine which I thought I might be able to pass through the raw PCI / USB device that windows might then be able to enable. If that's the case though, I don't know what the device actually is that the switch would work on... I assume it's not a USB device at that stage?

If I do somehow get it enabled, will it then stay on forever more?

Cheers

Chris

[rCX]

Look at this post

[acid_kewpie]

Well whaddya know! Excellent, worked perfectly. Thanks for the reference!