broken bluetooth after upgrade to 8.10

[Derek Broughton]

Dotan Cohen wrote:

> 2008/11/15 Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>:
>> 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"?
> 
> Ah, but it _does_ have to do with Kubuntu. Kubuntu is the distro: the
> folks who took all the tools (KDE, hcitool, Linux kernel) and packaged
> them together. It is not a KDE issue, but it is a Kubuntu issue.
 
That doesn't work unless "all" the tools are unsupported in Ubuntu - in 
which case, I don't even get why this is announced as a Kubuntu issue.
-- 
derek