basic bluetooth question

[don fisher <dfisher as arizona edu>]

I am running F8 on a Dell 1721 laptop. After I boot, and run hciconfig, 
sometimes there is output, and other time none. Can anybody please 
inform me if anything required in modprobe.conf. I would also like to 
know where hcid is spawned from, etc. I have restarted 
/etc/init.d/bluetooth and was not able to detect any change.

I have a Buetooth mouse and keyboard. When there is output from 
hciconfig, I can connect the devices.

Can somebody please help me with what needs to be configured?

Thanks
don