Bluetooth AR3011 not working SONY VAIO VPCA2S1E

szebenyib · 2012-01-13 18:03:37

Hello,

my problem is that the built-in bluetooth does not work, however it works on ubuntu. (It did not work there when I installed it either. But I am not using it anyway, just checked if it is available now.)
So I checked which hardware I have and it is Atheros AR3011.
The necessary firmware is ath3k-1.fw, as stated here: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath3k

I have found an aur package for it, but it wouldn't install, since it is installed already. OK, checked it out via package file list, the linuwfirmware has it, which is installed.

Do you know what I could do to make it work?

I am new to kernel or drivers so any -seemingly stupid thing- basic thing would be of help.
(I don't even know if it loaded, tried using modprobe too, but I think without any success, didn't get any output from it - and I am not sure how to use it.)

Thanks,
B

gbc921 · 2012-04-04 03:04:15

Hi szebenyib

I have a ASUS Bluetooth USB dongle (USB-BT211) that uses the same Atheros AR3011 chip inside.
I've made this adapter work after this steps:

Be sure that your modules section on rc.conf don't load "automatically" the ath3k module.
Make sure that you have the ath3k module in the kernel ( ls -la /lib/firmware/ath* )(Probably you have if you are using a not too old kernel)
Then, load the module:
```
sudo moprobe ath3k
```
And, finally, insert the Bluetooth dongle.

Hummm, just after writing this I realized that you don't have a way to remove/insert. Hahahah

So you can try to remove the ath3k module after booting:

sudo modprobe -r ath3k

and after that, load the module again and see if it works.

If this don't work, paste here the "dmesg | tail" output and your kernel version. I'm not an expert in this thing but we can try some others way. Haha

By the way, I have installed the ath3k package from AUR, but I don't think that is necessary either. I will remove it and see if it works next boot.

Cheers,
Gabriel

szebenyib · 2012-04-05 07:21:43

Hello gbc921,

I will try what you have posted as soon as I have the time to do so. Thank you very-very much for taking the time to write.
Hopefully I will be able to get to that soon, I just have to fix my catalyst driver it is broken somehow.

I will post the results after I have tried your method.

gbc921 · 2012-04-06 02:52:27

Try it.
Mine doesn't work anymore.
I don't know if I was luckier or was because I removed the AUR package and rebooted. Even, installing it again don't bring it back.

Tell me after what happened with you.

Cheers,

gbc921 · 2012-05-28 23:03:25

My bluetooth is working again I don't know why.
I have a fully up to date system.

I'm not loading the bluetooth module automatically (on rc.conf), neither I have the ath3k AUR package installed and I started the bluetooth service after plug-in the dongle.

What I found on the bluetooth arch wiki that can be interesting is that:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bl … ting_GNOME

Hope that helps.

Cheers,

szebenyib · 2012-05-29 21:36:36

It is not working unfortunately. I don't know how, I got it working once, but in the end I gave up. I don't really need it usually, maybe I will try playing around with it in the future, but it just makes me nervous to see that it is not working.
But, thanks for the advice!

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#1 2012-01-13 18:03:37

Bluetooth AR3011 not working SONY VAIO VPCA2S1E

#2 2012-04-04 03:04:15

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#3 2012-04-05 07:21:43

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#5 2012-05-28 23:03:25

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