Bluetooth Issues

[LarryT]

Hello All,
I have an issue with bluetooth, the icon on the panel shows it is not turned on, even though it is?
Here are the results of service bluetooth status

● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Sat 2018-06-23 16:33:37 EDT; 23min ago
Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
Main PID: 1658 (bluetoothd)
Status: "Running"
CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service
└─1658 /usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd

Jun 23 16:33:37 larrry-ThinkPad-W520 bluetoothd[1658]: Not enough free handles to register service
Jun 23 16:33:37 larrry-ThinkPad-W520 bluetoothd[1658]: Not enough free handles to register service
Jun 23 16:33:37 larrry-ThinkPad-W520 bluetoothd[1658]: Sap driver initialization failed.
Jun 23 16:33:37 larrry-ThinkPad-W520 bluetoothd[1658]: sap-server: Operation not permitted (1)
Jun 23 16:34:00 larrry-ThinkPad-W520 bluetoothd[1658]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.53 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource
Jun 23 16:34:00 larrry-ThinkPad-W520 bluetoothd[1658]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.53 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink
Jun 23 16:34:04 larrry-ThinkPad-W520 bluetoothd[1658]: Failed to set mode: Blocked through rfkill (0x12)
Jun 23 16:34:08 larrry-ThinkPad-W520 bluetoothd[1658]: Failed to set mode: Blocked through rfkill (0x12)
Jun 23 16:53:29 larrry-ThinkPad-W520 bluetoothd[1658]: Failed to set mode: Blocked through rfkill (0x12)
Jun 23 16:53:29 larrry-ThinkPad-W520 bluetoothd[1658]: Failed to set mode: Blocked through rfkill (0x12)

Here are the results from dmesg |grep -i blue

[ 9.793346] thinkpad_acpi: rfkill switch tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: radio is unblocked
[ 11.397772] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.22
[ 11.397791] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 11.397793] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 11.397795] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 11.397798] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[ 11.514923] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: chip id 63
[ 11.515935] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: features 0x07
[ 11.531966] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM20702A
[ 11.532845] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM20702A1 (001.002.014) build 0000
[ 12.553943] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM20702A1 (001.002.014) build 1757
[ 12.570913] Bluetooth: hci0: Broadcom Bluetooth Device
[ 12.633240] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[ 12.633241] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[ 12.633244] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
[ 35.357800] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[ 35.357804] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[ 35.357809] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11

So it seems to be working but my Anywhere Mouse 2 will not connect and move the pointer??

Thanks,

LarryT

[JeremyB]

What does rfkill list show?

[LarryT]

rfkill list as follows:

0: tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
2: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

[LarryT]

Hi, some help here would be appreciated
Thanks, LarryT

[AndyMH]

Try installing blueman (it's available in the repos). A lot of people (including me) have had problems with the bluetooth app installed by default (blueberry?). Blueman fixed my bluetooth problems.

[JeremyB]

LarryT, I am a bit confused by the results in your first post there was an error shown

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 Failed to set mode: Blocked through rfkill (0x12)

But your rfkill results showed no blocks. Did you install the firmware for the bluetooth? I think I saw the results in dmesg of what I think was the firmware loading

[LarryT]

Yes, the Bluetooth code is being loaded, I had to get the code from Github to get the Broadcom software and load it into the correct directory. Obviously, it is trying to work.

[LarryT]

OK, when I upgraded to Linux Mint 19, the problem resolved itself. I got the appropriate HCD file from Github and placed it in the /lib/firmware/brcm direcftory, retarted and all is good now.
Thanks to all for your help!
LarryT