Bluetooth will not "Turn On" (MacBook Mac OS X 10.5.8)

Hello B:

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Try trashing a preference file (com.apple.bluetooth.plist) and restarting.

Barry

had this problem after waking my MacBook Pro from deep sleep with the monitor hooked up. I was able to fix it by killing (force quit) the bluetooth daemon a couple times.

http://developer.apple.com/Mac/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/m an8/blued.8.html

Start up the Activity Monitor (find it with Spotlight). Hit Command-1 to bring up the Activity Monitor window. In the blank at the top with the magnifying glass icon, type "blue". Sellect it, and hit "Quit Process" stop sign icon. Do it a couple times and the blue tooth icon will turn black again.

trashing the bluetooth pref file and resetting the pram don't work. Is anybody else having this issue? Any other ideas ?

Having the exact same problem as you, can not turn on bluetooth. I know this worked before Snow Leopard, I've used it with one of my wife's old phones. Can't say when it stopped though, unfortunately.

Have any of you figured out how to enable bluetooth again? Thanks.