My adapter stopped working again. The bluetooth-windows is again freezing and showing the "Bastien's computer"-stuff..
Bluetooth Manager also does not recognize my device, even though I had it working for a few days!
Afaik, I didn't change anything on the system, which really leaves me clueless.
I also did JeremyB's advice, but nothing changed.
If there's somebody out there who can help, I'd like to spend him or her a beer!
Sincerely,
MrHam
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original message:
Bluetooth adapter works but doesn't recognize devices
Hello dear Mint-fellows!
First of all, it's my first week into Linux, so please don't be too harsh!
I changed from Win10, where Bluetooth worked fine.
Now I am using Mint 18.1 Serana, Cinnamon 3.2.7, 64-bit.
A "short" prologue:
At first my Bluetooth didn't work at all. Though it was shown in the panel and turned "On", I opened the GUI and I was "visible as 'Devan's Computer' [...]"
(forgot the exact name, because it's nobody I've ever heard of!), and the circle next to "Devices" didn't rotate, so I thought it was frozen.
(I hope you have a rough understanding of what I mean)
I also installed blueman, but it didn't show any bluetooth adapter.
After failed researching and a bit trial and error,
I managed Mint to recognize my adapter by removing most of the bluetooth-packages shown in the Synaptic Package Manager,
and installing the following:
- bluetooth via the Terminal
This (bluez, as far as I know) brought me back to the same GUI as before, but this time instead of Devian's, my device was shown and the circle rotated.. I was happy and a bit proud of myself, but it didn't show any devices (which were there - my Anker SoundCore bluetooth speaker and my Galaxy S5, ofc not paired)
- so I also re-installed blueman.
Searching for "bluetooth" in the Synaptic Package Manager shows these installed packages:
- blueberry, blueman, bluez, bluez-tools, gnome-bluetooth
- libbluetooth3, libbluetooth3-dbg, libgnome-bluetooth13
Now here's the problem I face right now:
The adapter is now recognized and I can search for devices both via bluez and blueman, but nothing is shown.
I searched for this problem as well, but didn't find any useful information.
Well, unfortunately I don't know what to add, but maybe you already have an idea.
I will post the 'lsusb' and 'inxi -Fxz' output, tell me if you need something else.
Thanks for your help!
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~ $ lsusbCode: Select all
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:8001 Intel Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0a5c:216c Broadcom Corp. BCM43142A0 Bluetooth Device
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 04f2:b40e Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd HP Truevision HD camera
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 1bcf:0005 Sunplus Innovation Technology Inc. Optical Mouse
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hubCode: Select all
~ $ inxi -FxzCode: Select all
System: Host: Pav-15 Kernel: 4.4.0-53-generic x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 5.4.0)
Desktop: Cinnamon 3.2.7 (Gtk 3.18.9-1ubuntu3.2)
Distro: Linux Mint 18.1 Serena
Machine: System: Hewlett-Packard (portable) product: HP Pavilion 15 Notebook PC v: 097A120000005F10000600080
Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 2296 v: 78.21
Bios: Insyde v: F.43 date: 07/29/2016
CPU: Dual core Intel Core i5-5200U (-HT-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB
flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 8779
clock speeds: max: 2700 MHz 1: 2253 MHz 2: 2200 MHz 3: 2200 MHz
4: 2200 MHz
Graphics: Card-1: Intel Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics bus-ID: 00:02.0
Card-2: NVIDIA GM108M [GeForce 830M] bus-ID: 0a:00.0
Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: 1366x768@60.03hz
GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 5500 (Broadwell GT2)
GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 11.2.0 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card-1 Intel Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio Controller
driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Card-2 Intel Broadwell-U Audio Controller
driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:03.0
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.4.0-53-generic
Network: Card-1: Broadcom BCM43142 802.11b/g/n driver: wl bus-ID: 08:00.0
IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
Card-2: Realtek RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller
driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: 4000 bus-ID: 09:00.0
IF: eno1 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 250.1GB (7.2% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: Samsung_SSD_840 size: 250.1GB temp: 0C
Partition: ID-1: / size: 221G used: 9.2G (5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
ID-2: swap-1 size: 8.51GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda3
RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 38.0C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 213 Uptime: 1:16 Memory: 1289.5/7905.7MB
Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 5.4.0
Client: Shell (bash 4.3.461) inxi: 2.2.35 
