Bluetooth missing from i586 kernel config?

[Dave Jones]

On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 11:45:23PM +0000, Brian wrote:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > I've been struggling trying to get my USB bluetooth dongle to work on
 > my i586 based MiniITX since I started trying FC5 (Test 3).
 > 
 > The same BT dongle worked fine under the old FC4 installation.
 > 
 > >From what I can see, in the installed i586 kernel (2.6.15-1.2025_FC5)
 > the drivers and net modules are all missing. To prove this I just
 > installed the i686 kernel on another machine and bluetooth worked fine
 > and the relevant directories with modules were present:
 > i.e.
 > /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.2025_FC5/kernel/drivers/bluetooth
 > /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.2025_FC5/kernel/net/bluetooth
 > 
 > This seems to have been the case for all kernel builds I've tried in
 > the past few weeks.
 > 
 > Is this just an error in the config file used to compile the i586
 > kernel, or a concious decision to leave it out (in which case,
 > shouldn't the bluetooth service be removed too as it's throwing errors
 > on every boot?).
 > 
 > I'm hoping it's just an error, as I can't bear to think about having
 > to figure out how to manually compile every single new kernel from
 > source just to get bluetooth back on my mini-itx machine! :-(

over-aggressive slimming down of the 586 kernel.
I had fixing that on my TODO, but it got bubbled down by
other things in the last few days.  I'll try and get to it tonight.

		Dave

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