Symptom Trying to use hcitool returns the ambiguous error message "Device is not available: Success" ``` [root@localhost ~]# hcitool scan Device is not available: Success [root@localhost ~]# ``` Solution Start 'Bluetooth services' you monkey :'( .... I fell for this one and it took maybe half an hour of fiddling before I realised there was a /etc/init.d/bluetooth and that it wasn't running. ``` [root@localhost ~]# /etc/init.d/bluetooth start Starting Bluetooth services: [ OK ] [root@localhost ~]# hcitool scan Scanning ... ```