Bluetooth gone

A while ago, someone mailed me with problems getting bluetooth going on his iBook. He'd done a firmware upgrade from MuckOS, and now suddenly the bluetooth didn't work anymore under Linux. I couldn't help him—but a few days later, he mailed me back, saying that with a command called 'hid2hci' he could switch his bluetooth-hardware-with-newer-firmware to HCI mode, and that it then suddenly did work.

Of course, I'm on the train right now, want to connect to my cell phone over bluetooth so that I can dial in to somewhere, and find that the new logic board in my PowerBook (which they had to put there because the old one had simply broken down) 'conveniently' already contains this problematic firmware upgrade. So, no network. And no fixing that without network. Grmbl.

What's worse, 'apt-cache search hid2hci' renders nothing. I guess I'll have to go and google for that one. Hopefully it exists anywhere outside the mention of it in my mailbox.

Well. Guess I'll find out soon enough. But not as soon as I'd like. Oh well.

Update: after arriving at the office, a simple google search told me that it's actually part of bluez-utils. Which I obviously have installed. Aargh.