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zgredek

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Registered: 2016-07-21

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[Solved] Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 problem

I just did a fresh install of arch on my dell inspiron 5737. Everything worked out of the box more or less but i have some problems with Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565. Wifi worked without any problems just like the wiki says but it is a wifi+bt card. And when i go into kde system settings then bluetooth it says "no bluetooth adapters were found". I tried to look for a fix but most are strictly ubuntu related and fairly old. What shoud i do? My lspci looks like that:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT HD Audio Controller (rev 09)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series USB xHCI HC (rev 04)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series HECI #0 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 8 Series HD Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev e4)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev e4)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev e4)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series USB EHCI #1 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series LPC Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series SATA Controller 1 [AHCI mode] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 8 Series SMBus Controller (rev 04)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 07)
02:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Venus XT [Radeon HD 8870M / R9 M270X/M370X] (rev ff)

Last edited by zgredek (2016-07-22 09:47:26)

Starfish

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From: Germany

Registered: 2015-10-21

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Re: [Solved] Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 problem

The first step would be to look if the kernel recognizes a bluetooth device at all. What's

ls -l /sys/class/bluetooth

?

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zgredek

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Registered: 2016-07-21

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Re: [Solved] Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 problem

together 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 07-21 16:49 hci0 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.5/1-1.5:1.0/bluetooth/hci0

Starfish

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From: Germany

Registered: 2015-10-21

Posts: 134

Re: [Solved] Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 problem

So your OS definetly sees a bluetooth device and KDE is wrong. The question now is whether there is a driver.
Follow the sym link you posted (cd hci0) and then try to go into "device". If you're there, type "ls -l" again and see if there is a symlink of the structure

driver -> ../  .....  /<module name>

If yes, <module name> should be the driver visible in lsmod. You could also just try

lsmod | grep bt

and see if something pops out.
If no driver appears, I'm afraid you have to do some research on whether there is a linux driver for this bluetooth device at all and how to install it if present. I would check the AUR first.

If you have a running driver and KDE still doesn't see anything, you have at least narrowed the problem down and know it's KDE's fault. I can't help you with that though, I use another DE.

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [Solved] Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 problem

You have to enable/start the bluetooth service before anything (including KDE's daemon) can use it https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bluetooth (for reference I have a QCA6174 here and it works fine, don't really use it much though)

Last edited by V1del (2016-07-21 21:32:50)

zgredek

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Registered: 2016-07-21

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Re: [Solved] Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 problem

It works!
Thanks!
I don't usually use it just like you but i hate knowing that something doesnt work...im a bit paranoid perfectionist

Last edited by zgredek (2016-07-21 22:22:10)

V1del

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Re: [Solved] Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 problem

Cool, don't forget to mark as [SOLVED] by editing the title on your initial post