[SOLVED] LM18.1 - Bluetooth on HP Notebook does not detect devices

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[SOLVED] LM18.1 - Bluetooth on HP Notebook does not detect devices

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Hi all,

I'm still new to Linux and I have another problem. Checking out other posts it appears to be a common problem, from what I can see, but nothing I've read and tried so far has worked. It is, simply, that Bluetooth does not detect any devices; it just sits there searching.

Here's some background info: I have LM18.1 Cinnamon installed (dual booted with Win 10) on to a HP 17-y054na notebook (64bit AMD quad core). I did have a wireless issue that JeremyB solved for me a while ago but I've never needed bluetooth until now for my new headphones. I have tried to have it detect my phone but no joy there either. I have found a cmd from another post that outputs info about the wi-fi and bluetooth:

lspci -nnk | grep -iA3 net; lsusb; rfkill list; dmesg | egrep -i 'blue|firm'

The output is here: https://pastebin.com/Y9kRWT2e

Will someone please advise me what to do next?

Thanks
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Re: LM18.1 - Bluetooth on HP Notebook does not detect devices

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Anyone?
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Re: LM18.1 - Bluetooth on HP Notebook does not detect devices

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try

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wget https://www.dropbox.com/s/olqnqevf698lddo/fw-0a5c_216d.hcd
sudo cp fw-0a5c_216d.hcd /lib/firmware/BCM.hcd
Reboot
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Re: LM18.1 - Bluetooth on HP Notebook does not detect devices

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I dont have any bluetooth devices really to play with but I did see this in your log that might be your problem:

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[   22.141289] bluetooth hci0: Direct firmware load for brcm/BCM.hcd failed with error -2
Basically, It looks like your firmware for your bluetooth (hci0) did not load. Atleast its somewhere to start.

Then it reports this :

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[   22.141301] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: Patch brcm/BCM.hcd not found
Which most likely is related to the first error.

Like I said, I do not have much experience with bluetooth but at least to me it looks like the firmware for your bluetooth never loaded.
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Re: LM18.1 - Bluetooth on HP Notebook does not detect devices

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Hi JeremyB. Ran your commands in a terminal window (cut and paste) but there's been no change, I'm afraid.
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Re: LM18.1 - Bluetooth on HP Notebook does not detect devices

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Please post results for

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dmesg | egrep -i 'blue|firm'; ls /lib/firmware/brcm | grep hcd
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Re: LM18.1 - Bluetooth on HP Notebook does not detect devices

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[ 0.313489] [Firmware Bug]: ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored
[ 0.339233] [Firmware Bug]: ACPI: No _BQC method, cannot determine initial brightness
[ 0.350918] acpi PNP0A08:00: [Firmware Info]: MMCONFIG for domain 0000 [bus 00-3f] only partially covers this bridge
[ 1.608141] [drm] Found VCE firmware/feedback version 40.2.2 / 15!
[ 20.742349] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.21
[ 20.742388] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 20.742394] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 20.742399] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 20.742408] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[ 21.336695] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: chip id 70
[ 21.352809] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM43142A
[ 21.352819] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM (001.001.011) build 0000
[ 21.617325] bluetooth hci0: Direct firmware load for brcm/BCM.hcd failed with error -2
[ 21.617338] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: Patch brcm/BCM.hcd not found
[ 23.622972] Bluetooth: hci0 command 0x1003 tx timeout
[ 27.772039] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[ 27.772045] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[ 27.772052] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
[ 71.385682] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[ 71.385696] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[ 71.385708] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11
BCM-0a5c-6410.hcd
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Re: LM18.1 - Bluetooth on HP Notebook does not detect devices

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Try the instructions from viewtopic.php?f=53&t=260933#p1410929 again as I see no BCM.hcd file

Also, what kernel are you using

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uname -a
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Re: LM18.1 - Bluetooth on HP Notebook does not detect devices

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Hello JeremyB,

I ran those instructions again and rebooted and Bluetooth still doesn't find any devices. I've run the 'dmesg' command and the output now is:

[ 0.313474] [Firmware Bug]: ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored
[ 0.342405] [Firmware Bug]: ACPI: No _BQC method, cannot determine initial brightness
[ 0.353075] acpi PNP0A08:00: [Firmware Info]: MMCONFIG for domain 0000 [bus 00-3f] only partially covers this bridge
[ 1.604912] [drm] Found VCE firmware/feedback version 40.2.2 / 15!
[ 22.029781] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.21
[ 22.029807] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 22.029814] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 22.029819] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 22.029827] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[ 22.226412] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: chip id 70
[ 22.242441] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM43142A
[ 22.242450] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM (001.001.011) build 0000
[ 22.679129] bluetooth hci0: Direct firmware load for brcm/BCM.hcd failed with error -2
[ 22.679141] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: Patch brcm/BCM.hcd not found
[ 24.683805] Bluetooth: hci0 command 0x1003 tx timeout
[ 29.159718] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[ 29.159725] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[ 29.159733] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
[ 64.552543] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[ 64.552561] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[ 64.552571] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11
BCM-0a5c-6410.hcd

The output of 'uname -a' is: 4.4.0-83-generic #106-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jun 26 17:54:43 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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Re: LM18.1 - Bluetooth on HP Notebook does not detect devices

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Found the issue, a typo

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sudo cp fw-0a5c_216d.hcd /lib/firmware/brcm/BCM.hcd
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Re: LM18.1 - Bluetooth on HP Notebook does not detect devices

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Hi Jeremy,

I ran:

wget https://www.dropbox.com/s/olqnqevf698ld ... c_216d.hcd
sudo cp fw-0a5c_216d.hcd /lib/firmware/brcm/BCM.hcd

then rebooted and bluetooth is still not working. It has changed, however, in as much as it now claims my computer will be visible as 'Bastian's computer' and the 'searching for devices' graphic (the rotating arrow) no longer rotates.
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Re: LM18.1 - Bluetooth on HP Notebook does not detect devices

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Incidentally, the output to 'wget https://www.dropbox.com/s/olqnqevf698ld ... c_216d.hcd' is:

c_216d.hcd
--2018-01-11 20:18:22-- https://www.dropbox.com/s/olqnqevf698ld
Resolving www.dropbox.com (www.dropbox.com)... 162.125.64.1, 2620:100:6020:1::a27d:4001
Connecting to www.dropbox.com (www.dropbox.com)|162.125.64.1|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: ‘olqnqevf698ld’

olqnqevf698ld [ <=> ] 205.45K 427KB/s in 0.5s

2018-01-11 20:18:23 (427 KB/s) - ‘olqnqevf698ld’ saved [210385]

--2018-01-11 20:18:23-- http://.../
Resolving ... (...)... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address ‘...’
--2018-01-11 20:18:23-- http://c_216d.hcd/
Resolving c_216d.hcd (c_216d.hcd)... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address ‘c_216d.hcd’
FINISHED --2018-01-11 20:18:23--
Total wall clock time: 0.9s
Downloaded: 1 files, 205K in 0.5s (427 KB/s)

There is no text output to 'sudo cp fw-0a5c_216d.hcd /lib/firmware/brcm/BCM.hcd' except for it asking for my password.
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Re: LM18.1 - Bluetooth on HP Notebook does not detect devices

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Check

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ls /lib/firmware/brcm | grep hcd; rfkill list; hciconfig -a
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Re: LM18.1 - Bluetooth on HP Notebook does not detect devices

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'ls /lib/firmware/brcm | grep hcd; rfkill list; hciconfig -a' outputs:

BCM-0a5c-6410.hcd
BCM.hcd
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
hci0: Type: BR/EDR Bus: USB
BD Address: 00:00:00:00:00:00 ACL MTU: 0:0 SCO MTU: 0:0
DOWN
RX bytes:292 acl:0 sco:0 events:5 errors:0
TX bytes:92 acl:0 sco:0 commands:8 errors:0
Features: 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
Packet type: DM1 DH1 HV1
Link policy:
Link mode: SLAVE ACCEPT
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Re: LM18.1 - Bluetooth on HP Notebook does not detect devices

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See if it functions after

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echo -e "power on\n scan on\n quit" |bluetoothctl
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Re: LM18.1 - Bluetooth on HP Notebook does not detect devices

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Subbed, i'm on the same situation. Same adapter on an HP notebook. Followed the same steps and have similar results. ....i hope we can solve this issue

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Re: LM18.1 - Bluetooth on HP Notebook does not detect devices

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Still the same. Not detecting devices, 'Bastien's Computer'(!!!???) and the rotating arrow graphic is stalled.

Output of 'echo -e "power on\n scan on\n quit" |bluetoothctl' is:

[bluetooth]# power on
No default controller available
[bluetooth]# scan on
No default controller available
[bluetooth]# quit
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Re: LM18.1 - Bluetooth on HP Notebook does not detect devices

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echo -e "power on\n scan on\n quit" |bluetoothctl

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[bluetooth]# power on
No default controller available
[bluetooth]#  scan on
No default controller available
[bluetooth]#  quit
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Re: LM18.1 - Bluetooth on HP Notebook does not detect devices

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Problem SOLVED for me. In this thread we are working with the WRONG firmware.

I followed this guide: https://askubuntu.com/questions/632336/ ... nt-working. Now my laptop has a fully working bluetooth!

Reading forum rules, i think i'm allowed to link to external forums...
I can't directly share the firmware due to "legal limitations". but...
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Re: LM18.1 - Bluetooth on HP Notebook does not detect devices

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linoleum wrote:Still the same. Not detecting devices, 'Bastien's Computer'(!!!???) and the rotating arrow graphic is stalled.

Output of 'echo -e "power on\n scan on\n quit" |bluetoothctl' is:

[bluetooth]# power on
No default controller available
[bluetooth]# scan on
No default controller available
[bluetooth]# quit
Lets try another source for the firmware

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wget https://github.com/winterheart/broadcom-bt-firmware/blob/master/brcm/BCM43142A0-0a5c-216d.hcd
sudo cp BCM43142A0-0a5c-216d.hcd /lib/firmware/brcm/BCM.hcd
Reboot, if it doesn't work, feel free to try to make your own firmware using the askubuntu link provided by skomo
I do think that some kernel changes may have broken the firmware upload on some Broadcom bluetooth chipsets as my own Bluetooth dongle refuses to work at all when the firmware file is present but the firmware is only needed to use the HFP/HSP for low quality audio
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