Bluetooth not working

BananaBot · 2022-04-01 16:39:09

Hello all,

I am having a bluetooth problem with my system. It cannot detect any drivers at all and just shows no adapters found (Tried all the tutorials for getting bluetooth to work on Arch linux so far). My wifi card is a realtek 8821CE which has wifi and bluetooth together. Wifi works fine but bluetooth won't.

The following is the report of inxi -Fxz:

System:
  Kernel: 5.17.1-arch1-1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.2.0
    Desktop: bspwm v: 0.9.10 Distro: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Laptop 15-da2xxx
    v: Type1ProductConfigId serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: HP model: 86B4 v: 88.30 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Insyde
    v: F.36 date: 02/03/2021
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 36.7 Wh (100.0%) condition: 36.7/40.9 Wh (89.7%)
    volts: 12.9 min: 11.3 model: Hewlett-Packard PABAS0241231 status: full
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: Intel Core i7-10510U bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Comet/Whiskey Lake note: check rev: C cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB
    L3: 8 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 683 high: 700 min/max: 400/4900 cores: 1: 700 2: 700
    3: 700 4: 661 5: 608 6: 700 7: 700 8: 700 bogomips: 36812
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel CometLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0
  Device-2: NVIDIA GM108M [GeForce MX130] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: nvidia v: 510.54 bus-ID: 01:00.0
  Device-3: Quanta HP TrueVision HD Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo
    bus-ID: 1-5:4
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 driver: X:
    loaded: modesetting,nvidia unloaded: vesa gpu: i915
    resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics (CML GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 22.0.0
    direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH-LP cAVS vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.17.1-arch1-1 running: yes
  Sound Server-2: sndio v: N/A running: no
  Sound Server-3: JACK v: 1.9.20 running: no
  Sound Server-4: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
  Sound Server-5: PipeWire v: 0.3.49 running: no
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 4000 bus-ID: 02:00.0
  IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: rtw_8821ce v: N/A port: 3000
    bus-ID: 03:00.0
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-1: vmnet1 state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-2: vmnet8 state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: <filter>
RAID:
  Hardware-1: Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci
    v: 3.0 bus-ID: 00:17.0
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.36 TiB used: 157.9 GiB (11.3%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Western Digital model: WDS500G2B0C-00PXH0
    size: 465.76 GiB temp: 32.9 C
  ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD10SPZX-60Z10T0
    size: 931.51 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 151.9 GiB used: 90.29 GiB (59.4%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 229.9 MiB used: 14 KiB (0.0%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
  ID-3: /home size: 457.38 GiB used: 67.6 GiB (14.8%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/sda3
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 56.0 C pch: 45.0 C mobo: 27.8 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 250 Uptime: 38m Memory: 23.29 GiB used: 2.1 GiB (9.0%)
  Init: systemd Compilers: gcc: 11.2.0 clang: 13.0.1 Packages: 6513
  Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 inxi: 3.3.14

rfkill list produces the following output:

0: phy0: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no

Also when I do systemctl status bluetooth I get this which might be of some use:

○ bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
     Active: inactive (dead)
  Condition: start condition failed at Fri 2022-04-01 21:47:35 IST; 18min ago
             └─ ConditionPathIsDirectory=/sys/class/bluetooth was not met
       Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)

Apr 01 21:18:24 nik-arch systemd[1]: Bluetooth service was skipped because of a failed condition check (ConditionPathIsDirectory=/sys/class/bluetoo>
Apr 01 21:19:34 nik-arch systemd[1]: Bluetooth service was skipped because of a failed condition check (ConditionPathIsDirectory=/sys/class/bluetoo>
Apr 01 21:47:35 nik-arch systemd[1]: Bluetooth service was skipped because of a failed condition check (ConditionPathIsDirectory=/sys/class/bluetoo>

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks in advance,
BananaBot

jonno2002 · 2022-04-01 23:58:42

have you tried this aur package:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rtl8821ce-dkms-git

failing that there is a ton of info out there about this problem so get reading !

BananaBot · 2022-04-04 14:45:53

Hi jonno,

First of all thanks for responding but I just had some weird problem yesterday while I was playing in windows which caused my /dev/sda3 to get deleted (aka Arch) and still don't know what happened :c

I'm kinda caught up with college stuff and whatnot and am not getting time to set Arch up again so went with Garuda linux for now... will move back to Arch once I get free time.
I know I'm not supposed to ask doubts on Arch-based distros here and I was asking about Arch at the moment but this seems to be a distro independent problem as I have the same problems in Garuda too... Hence I'll be grateful if I could keep this thread open for updates on it
I can move this to Garuda's forums if it's bothering anyone

Thanks again

Arch Linux

#1 2022-04-01 16:39:09

Bluetooth not working

#2 2022-04-01 23:58:42

Re: Bluetooth not working

#3 2022-04-04 14:45:53

Re: Bluetooth not working

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