Bluetooth devices not detected

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a_sush_ayinap

Bluetooth devices not detected

Post by a_sush_ayinap »

Hi all!

I'm a completely new user of Mint 18.3 cinnamon. I have seen this is a quite common problem for users: the bluetooth won't detect the nearby devices while using blueberry or even blueman.

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dmesg | grep Blue
[   12.851693] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.22
[   12.851718] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[   12.851722] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[   12.851724] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[   12.851730] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[   12.967482] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: chip id 70
[   12.983440] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM43142A
[   12.983442] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM (001.001.011) build 0000
[   13.010843] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: Patch brcm/BCM.hcd not found
[   15.021635] Bluetooth: hci0 command 0x1003 tx timeout
[   17.612213] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[   17.612215] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[   17.612218] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
[   56.624971] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[   56.624980] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[   56.624985] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11
I'm stumped, don't know what to do next. Please advise.
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JeremyB
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Re: Bluetooth devices not detected

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It is missing the firmware, please post results for

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lsusb
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a_sush_ayinap

Re: Bluetooth devices not detected

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$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 04f2:b3aa Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd 
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0489:e062 Foxconn / Hon Hai 
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
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 003: ID 1a2c:2d23 China Resource Semico Co., Ltd 
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 04b3:310c IBM Corp. Wheel Mouse
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
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Re: Bluetooth devices not detected

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Do

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wget https://www.dropbox.com/s/prxmhz1zvt0chdc/fw-0489_e062.hcd

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sudo cp fw-0489_e062.hcd /lib/firmware/brcm/BCM.hcd
Reboot
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