Bluetooth not working on laptop

[verden]

Hi i have LMDE installed on my Toshiba M100 laptop. When i click on the bluetooth icon i get a "you do not have any bluetooth adapters plugged in". Any ideas on how to activate my bluetooth?
If i dmesg|grep Bluetooth in a terminal i get
dmesg|grep Bluetooth
[ 12.677527] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.15
[ 12.677598] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 12.677602] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 12.843889] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.14
[ 12.843892] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 12.878046] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[ 12.878056] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[ 12.878060] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11
[ 13.401538] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[ 13.401545] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[ 13.749879] Bluetooth: SCO (Voice Link) ver 0.6
[ 13.749885] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized

[kwevej]

try to install backports - compat-wireless

[lotech]

Excuse my ignorance how do I add backports what's the address ?

[dawgdoc]

The GUI way is:

Menu > Administration > Software Sources

On the first tab <LinuxMint Software> check the Backported Packages (backport) option

[lotech]

Already did but my bluetoorh still not recognize.

[dawgdoc]

In my LMDE, bluetooth is enabled in the startup applications by default, is it in yours? > Menu > Preferences > Startup Applications
if not, enable it and reboot.

If yes it is enabled:
Are you getting the bluetooth icon in the Notification Area of your panel?
If yes, click it and select preferences to see what devices are listed. Setup your device as a new device if not listed.

If you are not getting the bluetooth icon:
What bluetooth antenna (transmitter/receiver) are you using? is it internal or plug in? If internal, do you have a hardware switch?
for internal

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lspci

for plug in, with it plugged in

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lsusb

also run these two commands and paste the output along with that from above (if you put the output in code boxes it will be scrollable instead of going down the page)

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lsmod | grep blu
/sbin/modprobe -l | grep blu

What bluetooth device are you trying to connect to?

[szamot83]

Hello,
Try to open terminal and paste:

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sudo hciconfig -a

then check bluetooth-daemon if it work.

Regards

[revinary]

Hi guys,

I am having the same/similar issue.

BT has been working for months. Suddenly it stopped working, maybe due to a package upgrade of some sort.

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hcitool dev

reports no devices.

Gnome's bluetooth manager says I have no BT device present in my notebook.

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lspci

however says
...
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0a5c:4500 Broadcom Corp. BCM2046B1 USB 2.0 Hub (part of BCM2046 Bluetooth)
...

The adapter is defenitely present and working since it works under Win7.

Also, kernel version and config did not change.

Any ideas?

Cheers,

rev

[lauren]

Hi!
Sometimes the adapter is not recognized; there are 2 modes: hid and hci; maybe the command "hid2hci --method=x --vendor=y --product=z" helps - where y and z are the hexnumbers (each one 4 digits) of the vendor/ product and x may be the name of the computer.
lauren

Edit:
At the moment I'm not on my netbook and not on LMDE.
Example:

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 lsusb

Output:

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...
Bus 003 Device 005: ID 521d:7023 Sony Wireless Bluetooth Card

x=sony, y=521d, z=7023

[revinary]

Thanks for the reply Lauren,

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sudo hid2hci -v 0a5c -p 4500 -r hci -m dell

did not work. It said "Attempting to switch device 0a5c:4500 to HCI mode failed (Broken pipe)"

Maybe this is because

Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0a5c:4500 Broadcom Corp. BCM2046B1 USB 2.0 Hub (part of BCM2046 Bluetooth)

is not the actual BT device since it reads " part of BCM2046 Bluetooth "

Cheers,

rev

[lauren]

Hi!
But it seems to be the right way ; I would try

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sudo hid2hci --method=dell --vendor=0a5c --product=4500

And did you read

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man hid2hci

?
I would search in the net ( I will do it too and report, if I find something useful).
lauren

Edit:
http://www.vivaolinux.com.br/dica/Mouse-Bluetooth-(Debian-Linux)
http://wiki.debian.org/BluetoothUser
http://idebian.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/manage-hid-bluetooth-devices-in-linux/ !

And I would search with "bluetooth and your computer/ modell name".

[revinary]

Thanks for your effort!

Unfortunately, none of the linked sites helped resolve the issue.
Also, as mentioned hid2hci always gives me the 'Broken pipe' error.

Google had some interesting info regarding Dell notebooks + BT:

It looks like in some cases, when people disable their BT device in Win and then boot Linux
it won't show up and there is no way to enable it unless you boot back into Win again.

So I tried enabling/disabling the adapter in Win -> no success

Also it looks like Win updates the adapters firmware which results in Linux not beeing able to use/discover it anymore.

So I tried installing a firmware file which came with the original DELL driver -> no success
Uninstalling the Win driver entirely -> no success

Any ideas,

rev

[szamot83]

For me solution was:
Open terminal, and paste:

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bluetooth-applet &

after this bluetooth appears in system tray, but I couldn't enable bluetooth.
Then I paste in terminal

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    sudo hciconfig -a

again click on bluetooth applet and now it works.

Regards

[lauren]

HI!
UBUNTU DOCUMENTATION:https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BluetoothSetup
lauren

[revinary]

Hi,

nothing helps.

The way I see it, it boils down to this:

• Bluetooth used to work fine and out of the box in LMDE (and also Knoppix, Ubuntu, Win).
• From one day to the next it stops working.
• BT adapter is not recogniced by Linux anymore (tried several distros).
• lsusb doesn't list it (only the USB hub it's connected to)
• hcitool won't find it
• restarted bluetoothd, tried different BT stacks, quadruplechecked my kernel .config
• hid2hci won't do anything since there is no adapter to use it on

BT works under Win7 so it is physically present and working

Tried enabling, disabling, uninstalling, downgrading (firmware) the adapter under Win.

Still nothing.

Adapter is a Dell Wireless 365 which is based on the Broadcom BCM2046.
It's an internal USB adapter.

I highly appreciate any further ideas!

rev

[lauren]

Hi guys,
...
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0a5c:4500 Broadcom Corp. BCM2046B1 USB 2.0 Hub (part of BCM2046 Bluetooth)
...
The adapter is defenitely present and working since it works under Win7.
Also, kernel version and config did not change.
Any ideas?
Cheers,
rev

You must try another distribution (e.g. PartedMagic with many tools is more than an operating system);
- I very often use it -
run in a Terminal (PartedMagic: LXTerminal):

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lsusb

and hope that your BT adapter hexcode is displayed in that distribution.
It is (now) clear that 0a5c:4500 is not the right number (->part of [b]BCM2046 Bluetooth!)
PartedMagic 6.2 -> http://partedmagic.com/doku.php
lauren

Edit:
I don't know, if it is possible to find out the right number ( 8 hex digits) under Windows.

[revinary]

Hi again,

first of all thanks for your support Lauren!

Now: I finally got it to work! Here's what did the trick:

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sudo hid2hci --method dell -v 413c -p 8162

Where lsusb lists 413c:8162 as

Bus 001 Device 006: ID 413c:8162 Dell Computer Corp. Integrated Touchpad [Synaptics]

Well, what can I say...

I had to set the touchpad to HCI mode which, surprisingly, made the BT adapter appear as

Bus 001 Device 007: ID 413c:8160 Dell Computer Corp. Wireless 365 Bluetooth

I stumbled over the hint in the following thread:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=527350

The solution was simple but not obvious. At least not to me.

Anyway, now BT works again and I learned a lot and I'm happy.

(Altough I never figured out what broke BT in the first place)

So long,

rev

[MiniT]

Hi all.
I may start a seperate thread if it seems a good idea.

Got a Dell Inspiron Mini 1012 with the option of Bluetooth?
Don't know if it ever came with or not! Never tried with (shudder) Win7.

So it MIGHT have Dell 365 Bluetooth internal antenna.

lspci and lsusb don't show it.
But, the other - "dmesg|grep Blue" gives this:

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[   24.891568] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.16
[   24.891623] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[   24.891628] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[   24.891632] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[   24.892637] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[   25.089137] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[   25.089144] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[   25.089494] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[   25.089504] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[   25.089508] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11

So I guess that's the driver and modules reporting back that they're set up?
Since I cannot get "lsusb" or "lspci" to show anything Bluetooth related, perhaps it doesn't have the antenna afterall.

Or maybe the blacklisted drivers when I set up Broadcom STA caused a problem?
I have never actually seen a "lsusb" or "lspci" on any distro report that this laptop has Bluetooth.

Maybe have to open the thing up and find out for sure.
A USB port Bluetooth adapter is much cheaper than the internal one.

mini
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maybe helpful:
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/s ... /index.htm
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/s ... /index.htm
http://wiki.debian.org/BluetoothUser