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Enverex

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Mate and Bluetooth (Blueman) Not Working

I'm trying to use Bluetooth in the Mate desktop environment so I have bluez installed, the bluetooth service started and "blueman" installed which is apparently the bluetooth manager you're supposed to use with Mate, but it's not working.

Blueman opens but always complains that bluetooth is turned off, but it isn't.

hci0:   Type: BR/EDR  Bus: USB
        BD Address: AC:7B:A1:74:3B:7C  ACL MTU: 1021:5  SCO MTU: 96:5
        UP RUNNING
        RX bytes:630 acl:0 sco:0 events:35 errors:0
        TX bytes:376 acl:0 sco:0 commands:35 errors:0
        Features: 0xff 0xfe 0x0f 0xfe 0xdb 0xff 0x7b 0x87
        Packet type: DM1 DM3 DM5 DH1 DH3 DH5 HV1 HV2 HV3
        Link policy: RSWITCH HOLD SNIFF
        Link mode: SLAVE ACCEPT
        Name: 'Bluemoon Universal Bluetooth Host Controller'
        Class: 0x001f00
        Service Classes: Unspecified
        Device Class: Invalid Device Class!
        HCI Version: 4.0 (0x6)  Revision: 0x500
        LMP Version: 4.0 (0x6)  Subversion: 0x500
        Manufacturer: Intel Corp. (2)

hci0:   Type: BR/EDR  Bus: USB
        BD Address: AC:7B:A1:74:3B:7C  ACL MTU: 1021:5  SCO MTU: 96:5
        UP RUNNING
        RX bytes:630 acl:0 sco:0 events:35 errors:0
        TX bytes:376 acl:0 sco:0 commands:35 errors:0

0: phy0: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
1: hci0: Bluetooth
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no

So clearly it's there, it's not off and it's not blocked.

If I click "Turn bluetooth on" in the warning message Blueman gives me, it brings up the GUI, but I can't click anything and all the icons are greyed out.

The bluetooth device is the Bluetooth 4 part of the Intel 7260 Wireless mini-PCIe card.

Last edited by Enverex (2014-12-14 17:58:49)

TheSaint

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Re: Mate and Bluetooth (Blueman) Not Working

Did you see this topic

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Enverex

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Re: Mate and Bluetooth (Blueman) Not Working

I hadn't, but I'm not using NetworkManager or BlueDevil so it shouldn't be a NM conflict issue (and Bluetooth does start at startup).

Last edited by Enverex (2014-12-14 21:11:01)

TheSaint

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Re: Mate and Bluetooth (Blueman) Not Working

I meant post #5, in particular.
Also you may use bluetoothctl to inquire your system.

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progandy

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Re: Mate and Bluetooth (Blueman) Not Working

Are you using connman? Then you'll have to use connman(ctl) to toggle bluetooth.

Last edited by progandy (2014-12-15 06:35:45)

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Enverex

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Re: Mate and Bluetooth (Blueman) Not Working

I meant post #5, in particular.
Also you may use bluetoothctl to inquire your system.

I did check it with bluetoothctl and it -doesn't- find the bluetooth device at all. I stuck a USB bluetooth adapter in and that worked so bluetooth itself works, but it's not seeing bluetooth on the Intel 7260 for some reason.

Are you using connman? Then you'll have to use connman(ctl) to toggle bluetooth.

I'm not.