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Blue tooth not working

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i have mint 19 and i want to use my blue toothh earplugs but on blue tooth menu it onlu says searching but cant find them i tried to pair with my phone too but it doesnt even shows my device.....
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Re: Blue tooth not working

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Post results from terminal for

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lspci -nnk | grep -iA3 net; lsusb; dmesg | egrep -i 'blue|firm'
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Re: Blue tooth not working

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vikas@vikas-APPLE:~$ lspci -nnk | grep -iA3 net; lsusb; dmesg | egrep -i 'blue|firm'

01:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM43142 802.11b/g/n [14e4:4365] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Lenovo BCM43142 802.11b/g/n [17aa:0621]
	Kernel driver in use: wl
	Kernel modules: wl
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (rev 10)
	Subsystem: Lenovo RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [17aa:3812]
	Kernel driver in use: r8169
	Kernel modules: r8169
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 105b:e065 Foxconn International, Inc. BCM43142A0 Bluetooth module
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 5986:0652 Acer, Inc 
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0438:7900 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:0129 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTS5129 Card Reader Controller
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0438:7900 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 
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 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
[    0.073559] ACPI: [Firmware Bug]: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored
[    0.112441] acpi PNP0A08:00: [Firmware Info]: MMCONFIG for domain 0000 [bus 00-3f] only partially covers this bridge
[    1.950527] [drm] Found UVD firmware Version: 1.64 Family ID: 9
[    1.952746] [drm] Found VCE firmware/feedback version 40.2.2 / 15!
[  997.899795] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.22
[  997.899832] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[  997.899837] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[  997.899840] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[  997.899849] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[ 1551.723584] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[ 1551.723588] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[ 1551.723597] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
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Re: Blue tooth not working

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Try installing blueman from software manager. I gave up on the default bluetooth manager a long time ago.
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Re: Blue tooth not working

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