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halogen

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Registered: 2014-06-12

Posts: 67

[SOLVED] Bluetooth adapter not found

Hello all, I'm new to Arch (but a long time Debian user).

I managed to get everything working, except for bluetooth (BCM2045B, integrated, worked fine with Debian).

lsusb shows the same bus/devices I see in Debian, but the BCM2045B is missing. Gnome-bluetooth, bluez, bluez-utils, bluez-firmware are installed, kernel is 3.14.6-1.

Things I've tried:

- hcitool scan returns "Device is not available: No such device"
- hcitool dev returns "devices: <blank>"
- systemctl status bluetooth returns "active/running" (I tried to force a restart just to be sure)
- installing bluez-hid2hci didn't help
- output of: lsmod | grep blue

bluetooth             352625  5 bnep
6lowpan_iphc           11556  1 bluetooth
rfkill                 15971  4 cfg80211,thinkpad_acpi,bluetooth
crc16                   1359  2 ext4,bluetooth

I would appreciate any help.

Last edited by halogen (2014-06-12 15:47:02)

halogen

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Registered: 2014-06-12

Posts: 67

Re: [SOLVED] Bluetooth adapter not found

Nevermind, I just found the solution was to put the following commands in my startup script:

rfkill unblock 0
hciconfig hci0 up

(for some reason soft-unblocking won't survive a reboot).

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Re: [SOLVED] Bluetooth adapter not found

mark your thread solved by editing your first post and prepending the thread title with [SOLVED]

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