Can't tell if bluetooth is fully initialized

[cipherus]

I have an Asus A8Jp laptop, which is shown here as having good linux support for bluetooth ( http://www.rothlaender.net/a8js.html ). I have followed the gentoo guide for bluetooth ( http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/bluetooth-guide.xml ) but at the part where it says to use hciconfig to view your bluetooth device, for me even hciconfig -a shows nothing. But I checked dmesg and it showed that loading the bluetooth services opened a new device pan0 so I check in ifconfig -a and it shows up there. hcitool dev doesn't show any devices either...

Is this normal/acceptable?

[zogle]

silly question... i guess it never hurts to ask
... i have an lenovo IBM x60 with an RF switch .. physical switch to turn the bluetooth and wireless chip's on and off. does your laptop have something similar and if so .. is it in the correct position. mind you on mine there are only two physical options [ on or off ] .. but if i do this once the wireless is controlled, if i do it a second time the bluetooth is controlled, and a third .. both chips are controlled. you might want to double check the switch, if it exists, to see if the card is even turned on. also the tutorials you followed, i assume you have the correct modules loaded in your kernel? btw, what kernel ? any boot up messages / warning about bluetooth ?
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[cipherus]

There is a button for turning on the bluetooth device, and when I press it, dmesg shows: