I turned on my macbook this morning to find my bluetooth mouse and keyboard not working and when I went to the bluetooth icon it says bluetooth not available?
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Bluetooth unavailable on Macbook?
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Go to System Preference > Bluetooth (using the trackpad) and make sure Bluetooth is turned on.
I've been seeing this lately on my 12" PB (about 3 years old). Rebooting fixes it. I think it's a sign of impending hardware failure (but I don't know that for sure).
Considering I've had the macbook about a month, I sure hope its not hardware failure! But rebooting fixed it.
USB Villain
Unplug your USB items and reboot. Discovered this on my G5, turns out some USB items cause the problem. If that works for you, plug them in one by one and reboot to find out which one makes it unavailable. Mine was caused by a Logitech Webcam. Hope this helps,
Riley
Unplug your USB items and reboot. Discovered this on my G5, turns out some USB items cause the problem. If that works for you, plug them in one by one and reboot to find out which one makes it unavailable. Mine was caused by a Logitech Webcam. Hope this helps,
Riley
I've had this happening on my laptop prob since I installed the last update. I took Bluetooth off of my available networks and that seemed to help a bit it still goes off often. It's VERY annoying. Any other causes to this??
OS X 10.5.7
OS X 10.5.7
Since 10.5.7 my BT mouse had periodically been dropping out. I actually bought a brand new Logitech mouse before I found this script basically reboots the BT software in the OS. Now I have two fully functional BT mouse. 
Run the following script inside terminal and give the device another try...
sudo killall -HUP blued
Run the following script inside terminal and give the device another try...
sudo killall -HUP blued