Quickfix: Fedora 15 Bluetooth issue (in Asus EEEPC 1000H)

Fedora sports the best Bluetooth system in all the Linux distributions I've tried despite rarely using Bluetooth at all.  Sending and receiving files via Bluetooth in Fedora 15 Gnome 3 is intuitive and fast compared to openSUSE's implementation.  However, users of Fedora 15 have discovered a bug that renders the Bluetooth unavailable by default.

The Asus EEEPC 1000H's Bluetooth device works out of the box in Mandriva, openSUSE, and Ubuntu as long as the Bluetooth card is "soft" and "hard" unblocked.  This is accomplished via the package rfkill and via the command rfkill unblock.

Bluetooth unblocked.

After ensuring that the Bluetooth card is unblocked, users of Fedora 15 would still need to switch on the Bluetooth services via the Gnome Terminal (Alt+F2, gnome-terminal).  The solution to get Bluetooth working can be found in the Fedora forums and consists of running five commands:

sudo chkconfig bluetooth on
sudo service bluetooth start
systemctl status bluetooth.service
sudo systemctl enable bluetooth.service
sudo systemctl start bluetooth.service

For more details and links to configuring Bluetooth in Fedora, visit the Fedora Forum thread.

After getting the Bluetooth service up and running, finding and detecting smartphone Bluetooth devices is simple and straightforward.

Pairing a Nokia E63

Using the Gnome 3 OSD Indicator to send and receive files.