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BlueNova

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Registered: 2017-07-26

Posts: 1

[Broadcom BCM4352] A fix for empty bluetooth scan/visibility

Hi everyone,

I was looking since several hours on the forum and on the internet how to make this crazy bluetooth discovery work for Broadcom BCM4352.

After a (really) long journey across stackexchange, google and arch, one post finally helped me to fix this.

So, here you go :

cd /lib/firmware/brcm
sudo wget https://github.com/winterheart/broadcom-bt-firmware/raw/master/brcm/BCM20702A1-13d3-3404.hcd

And then, just reboot. You will be able to finally find your bluetooth devices.

To be as precise as possible, my current broadcom-wl (not b43 !) is linux49-broadcom-wl-6.30.223.271-32
My computer is an ASUS ROG G750JS.

Source : Stack Exchange

vvatermelone

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Registered: 2017-10-31

Posts: 1

Re: [Broadcom BCM4352] A fix for empty bluetooth scan/visibility

Dude. Dude. Dude. Thank you so goddam much. Bluetooth has been an absolute PITA since I started using linux and this just cured all my woes. I'm not even using Arch, and I made this account just to thank you. So yeah, thank you so much dude. Much appreciated.

jeremy31

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Registered: 2015-11-01

Posts: 149

Re: [Broadcom BCM4352] A fix for empty bluetooth scan/visibility

The files from that github site don't always work, you can create your own firmware following instructions from https://askubuntu.com/questions/632336/ … nt-working.  Check dmesg errors to see what filename the kernel wants for the firmware as that can change