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niv_easy

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Registered: 2016-04-30

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Dell Precision m4500 - bluetoothctl no default controller available

Hello all,

I followed this page in order to pair my new bluetooth wireless headset.
However unsuccessfully.

lsmod | grep -i bluetooth

bluetooth             499712  11 btrtl,btintel,bnep,btbcm,btusb
rfkill                 20480  7 bluetooth,dell_laptop,dell_rbtn,cfg80211
crc16                  16384  2 bluetooth,ext4

lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DMI (rev 11)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 11)
00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Core Processor System Management Registers (rev 11)
00:08.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Core Processor Semaphore and Scratchpad Registers (rev 11)
00:08.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Core Processor System Control and Status Registers (rev 11)
00:08.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Core Processor Miscellaneous Registers (rev 11)
00:10.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link (rev 11)
00:10.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Routing and Protocol Registers (rev 11)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82577LM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 05)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 05)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev 05)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev 05)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev 05)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a5)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation QM57 Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.2 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller (rev 05)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT216GLM [Quadro FX 880M] (rev a2)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GT216 HDMI Audio Controller (rev a1)
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6200 (rev 35)
04:00.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd CardBus bridge (rev 02)
04:00.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd MMC/SD Host Controller (rev 03)
04:00.4 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 PCIe IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 03)
3f:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-Core Registers (rev 04)
3f:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder (rev 04)
3f:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 (rev 04)
3f:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 (rev 04)
3f:03.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller (rev 04)
3f:03.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Target Address Decoder (rev 04)
3f:03.4 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Test Registers (rev 04)
3f:04.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0 Control Registers (rev 04)
3f:04.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0 Address Registers (rev 04)
3f:04.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0 Rank Registers (rev 04)
3f:04.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0 Thermal Control Registers (rev 04)
3f:05.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 1 Control Registers (rev 04)
3f:05.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 1 Address Registers (rev 04)
3f:05.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 1 Rank Registers (rev 04)
3f:05.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 1 Thermal Control Registers (rev 04)

systemctl status bluetooth

bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Sun 2017-10-22 09:31:47 IDT; 18min ago
     Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
 Main PID: 3082 (bluetoothd)
   Status: "Running"
    Tasks: 1 (limit: 4915)
   CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service
           └─3082 /usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd

Oct 22 09:31:47  systemd[1]: Starting Bluetooth service...
Oct 22 09:31:47  bluetoothd[3082]: Bluetooth daemon 5.47
Oct 22 09:31:47  systemd[1]: Started Bluetooth service.
Oct 22 09:31:47  bluetoothd[3082]: Starting SDP server
Oct 22 09:31:47  bluetoothd[3082]: Bluetooth management interface 1.14 initialized

journalctl -b | grep Bluetooth

Oct 22 09:31:41  kernel: Bluetooth: Core ver 2.22
Oct 22 09:31:41  kernel: Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
Oct 22 09:31:41  kernel: Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
Oct 22 09:31:41  kernel: Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
Oct 22 09:31:41  kernel: Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
Oct 22 09:31:47  systemd[1]: Starting Bluetooth service...
Oct 22 09:31:47  bluetoothd[3082]: Bluetooth daemon 5.47
Oct 22 09:31:47  systemd[1]: Started Bluetooth service.
Oct 22 09:31:47  bluetoothd[3082]: Bluetooth management interface 1.14 initialized
Oct 22 09:31:47  kernel: Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
Oct 22 09:31:47  kernel: Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
Oct 22 09:31:47  kernel: Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized

bluetoothctl

Agent registered
[bluetooth]# agent KeyboardOnly
Agent is already registered
[bluetooth]# default-agent
Default agent request successful
[bluetooth]# list
[bluetooth]# power on
No default controller available

hcitool dev

Devices:

hciconfig returns empty output.

Also tried with blueberry GUI tool, but no luck

Thanks.

Last edited by niv_easy (2017-10-22 12:06:05)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,742

Re: Dell Precision m4500 - bluetoothctl no default controller available

Please use [ code ] tags not [ quote ] tags for pasting command output.

You aren't initiating a device scan in that output. You might also want to follow https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bl … PulseAudio instead of the main Bluetooth article as it contains more specialized information for headsets.

niv_easy

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Registered: 2016-04-30

Posts: 2

Re: Dell Precision m4500 - bluetoothctl no default controller available

Sorry about that quote thing.

The bluetooth service is still active.

rfkill list

0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
1: dell-bluetooth: Bluetooth
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
2: phy0: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no

bluetoothctl

Agent registered
[bluetooth]# power on
No default controller available
[bluetooth]# agent on
Agent is already registered
[bluetooth]# default-agent
Default agent request successful
[bluetooth]# scan on
No default controller available
[bluetooth]# 

The headset was not discovered (for example: [NEW] Device 00:1D:43:6D:03:26 Lasmex LBT10).

Tried "Legacy documentation: ALSA, bluez5 and PulseAudio method" with no luck.

pulseaudio --check -v

I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon running as PID 26960

Last edited by niv_easy (2017-10-22 12:24:04)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,742

Re: Dell Precision m4500 - bluetoothctl no default controller available

Does dmesg / lsusb contain any information, on why your adapter might not be registering?

Last edited by V1del (2017-10-22 12:52:05)

jeremy31

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Registered: 2015-11-01

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Re: Dell Precision m4500 - bluetoothctl no default controller available

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lsusb; dmesg | egrep -i 'blue|firm'