Great. First, I would like to say that I tried Bluetooth with a liveCD of Mint 18 and it didn't work either. Even with that being so, I copied all the files in lib/firmware/brcm from the liveCD and replaced all my Bluetooth files with them.
This didn't work either but, at least now I know I have all the exact files that came with the original setup.
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Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:8000 Intel Corp.
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:8008 Intel Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 005: ID 0bda:0182 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 003 Device 004: ID 0951:16a7 Kingston Technology
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 413c:2107 Dell Computer Corp.
Bus 003 Device 006: ID 0a5c:21d7 Broadcom Corp. BCM43142 Bluetooth 4.0
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
I couldn't post the output of dmesg due to it being too many characters.
Does this help?
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lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (rev 0c)
Subsystem: Dell RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [1028:05b7]
Kernel driver in use: r8169
Kernel modules: r8169
04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 802.11b/g/n [14e4:4365] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1704 802.11n + BT 4.0 [1028:0016]
Kernel driver in use: wl
rfkill list all
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
1: brcmwl-0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
2: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
The kernel I'm using with Mint 18 is 4.4.0-21