Earlier I installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and my laptop was showing "no Bluetooth adapters found" and Bluetooth icon was not appearing in the panel. Also WiFi switch (F12) was not getting on but still WiFi and ethernet were working fine. Now I installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS but the Bluetooth problem remains same.
My laptop is having Bluetooth driver:
07:00.1 Bluetooth: Ralink corp. RT3290 Bluetooth
and rfkill list
output:
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
btmon
orhcidump -X
while trying to bring your bluetooth adapter up? Some buggy bluetooth adapters report that they support the "Delete Stored Link Key" feature but in fact do not support it. If your adapter suffers from this issue, you'll probably have to use a custom kernel that works around this issue. Either you can apply the patch in the link below, or you can upgrade to Linux 3.14 or newer. Those bluetooth adapters worked with Kernels before 3.9, but this was just luck. Here's the link to the bug report: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60824 – soulsource May 12 '14 at 09:06