This should be very basic - but I have searched for a long time and can't figure this out.

I click on my kbluetooth icon and everything is disable (grayed out) except "About".

How do I enable Device Manager?

What is your distribution? Why are you using kbluetooth? kbluetooth was obseleted by kdebluetooth a long time ago, which in turn was obseleted by bluedevil a while ago.

Hey thanks for the reply. I have kde:

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$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS \n \l

I refer to kbluetooth because it is running by default.

I want to talk to my android based phone - so I guess I uninstall kbluetooth and install bluedevil?

Probably, I think recent versions of KDE switched to udev, so the unmaintained kbluetooth may no longer work.

OK - thanks for the feedback.

I downloaded "bluedevil-1.1.tar.bz2" from a http://download.kde.org mirror. After I unzipped it there were no obvious install instructions though (like in the README file).

Later I found e-z instructions at http://joysofprogramming.com/install-bluedevil-ubuntu/:

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$ sudo apt-get install bluedevil
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package bluedevil


When I saw that it couldn't find the package I started thinking about repositories and stuff ... but since my kubuntu is 10.04 I figured I would update, and since 11.04 is right around the corner I'm going to update the OS first before I revisit this.

Thanks again for your help - it feels like a real struggle trying to get through this.