Blueman Bluetooth manager does not recognice devices -- XFCE 21.3 Virginia x86_64 bits Desktop: Xfc 4.18.1 HP 22-b204la

[snaporaz]

Hello Mint community. Appreciate all the support in advance. Decided to give an old HP model 22-b204la a second chance so installed Mint XFCE, unfortunately the bluetooth manager is not detecting any device.

Please kindly refer to my specs below
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Bluetooth:
Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-1.3:3
chip-ID: 0bda:b008 class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down bt-service: enabled,running rfk-block:
hardware: no software: yes address: <filter>

System:
Kernel: 5.15.0-100-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.4.0 Desktop: Xfce 4.18.1
tk: Gtk 3.24.33 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm 4.18.0 vt: 7 dm: LightDM 1.30.0
Distro: Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: HP product: 22-b204la v: N/A serial: <superuser required> Chassis:
type: 13 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: HP model: 8245 v: 001 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: AMI v: F.20 date: 10/11/2016
CPU:
Info: quad core model: AMD A6-7310 APU with AMD Radeon R4 Graphics bits: 64 type: MCP
smt: <unsupported> arch: Puma rev: 1 cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 2 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 2025 high: 2056 min/max: 1000/2000 boost: enabled cores: 1: 2056 2: 2055
3: 2047 4: 1945 bogomips: 15969
Flags: avx ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
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Any other information needed please let me know.
Thank you again in advance for all the great support!

[JeremyB]

Check mokutil --sb as Secure Boot will need to be disabled, then in terminal

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sudo apt install git dkms
git clone https://github.com/jeremyb31/bluetooth-5.15.git
sudo dkms add ./bluetooth-5.15
sudo dkms install btusb/4.1

Reboot