[SOLVED]Bluetooth adapter not showing in GnomeControlCenter Bluetooth

richcocoa · 2014-12-01 15:51:55

My bluetooth adapter is detected by the system. I use Cinnamon as my DE. I was able to use bluetooth earlier with blueman-git from AUR. I now thought of switching to gnome-bluetooth; so I installed it and gnome-control-center. But the GUI configuration section for Bluetooth in Gnome Control Center states that 'No Bluetooth adapters found.' But the utility for sending files, bluetooth-sendto, works fine. It detects my adapter, and I was also able to transfer a file.

I have removed blueman-git and rebooted the system after installation. My system is also up to date (was, yesterday at least ). Can help me solve this issue? The Arch wiki does not mention any such issue, nor has Googling helped me much. I would greatly appreciate any help. Please let me know if I need to provide more information.

Here is some relevant system information:

~ hcitool dev
Devices:
        hci0    C0:CB:38:B5:4A:48

~ rfkill list all
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
1: hci0: Bluetooth
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no

~ lsusb | grep blue
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 413c:8160 Dell Computer Corp. Wireless 365 Bluetooth
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0a5c:4500 Broadcom Corp. BCM2046B1 USB 2.0 Hub (part of BCM2046 Bluetooth)

~ lspci | grep net
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR8152 v1.1 Fast Ethernet (rev c1)

Last edited by richcocoa (2014-12-31 04:12:13)

discon · 2014-12-30 13:48:52

I have the same problem with a USB Bluetooth adapter. Hcitool dev lists it fine, it is "UP" and I've successfully used bluetoothctl to scan, pair and connect to other devices.

Still, the bluetooth applet in gnome settings does not show it and no error in the system journal.

TheSaint · 2014-12-30 13:56:52

# systemctl enable bluetooth
# systemctl start bluetooth

Did you ?

discon · 2014-12-30 14:13:58

TheSaint wrote:

# systemctl enable bluetooth
# systemctl start bluetooth

Did you ?

Yes, I did. I had only started the service actually and it was working. I enabled it later before rebooting.

I rebooted once and now it works. I can't explain it. It doesn't matter if the adapter is plugged in during boot or if I plug it in afterwards.

TheSaint · 2014-12-30 15:54:57

If unplugged nothing appear in the systray. But it will just after plugged in. This is my case with KDE.
is the matter [SOLVED] ?

richcocoa · 2014-12-31 04:09:44

Marking this as solved as I have identified my issue, and discon's problem also seems to have gone away. In my case, it had to do with the fact that I was not on Gnome. I was trying to use the Gnome bluetooth interface from Cinnamon. But it does not work for whatever reason. In any case, marking this as solved.

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#1 2014-12-01 15:51:55

[SOLVED]Bluetooth adapter not showing in GnomeControlCenter Bluetooth

#2 2014-12-30 13:48:52

Re: [SOLVED]Bluetooth adapter not showing in GnomeControlCenter Bluetooth

#3 2014-12-30 13:56:52

Re: [SOLVED]Bluetooth adapter not showing in GnomeControlCenter Bluetooth

#4 2014-12-30 14:13:58

Re: [SOLVED]Bluetooth adapter not showing in GnomeControlCenter Bluetooth

#5 2014-12-30 15:54:57

Re: [SOLVED]Bluetooth adapter not showing in GnomeControlCenter Bluetooth

#6 2014-12-31 04:09:44

Re: [SOLVED]Bluetooth adapter not showing in GnomeControlCenter Bluetooth

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