broken bluetooth after upgrade to 8.10

[Derek Broughton]

Dotan Cohen wrote:

> 2008/11/15 Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>:
>> Then why are the tools still in the distro?
>>
> 
> Why is the appendix still in our bellies?
> 
> That is actually a great question, Derek, and the truth is that the
> bluetooth problem was discovered so late in the process that it is
> just broken, not removed.

Actually, it occurs to me that this is nothing to do with Kubuntu, 
anyway.  hcitool is not KDE  - it's much lower level than that.

So the question is still "why doesn't hcitool work"?
-- 
derek