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#1 2019-05-19 22:05:04

Cinbu
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Registered: 2016-12-27
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Laptop can't find bluetooth keyboard

Hi,
I got a new bluetooth keyboard, and while it can be found by my smartphone, and through Windows in my dual boot setup, I can't discover it using bluetoothctl.
I also tried it with graphical bluetooth manager, with a similar result. The bluetooth discovery works otherwise, since bluetoothctl can find my smart phone for example.

I don't have much experience in that area, and the Arch wiki didn't help me further much. Can someone here see a possible problem?

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#2 2019-05-19 23:06:56

ewaller
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Re: Laptop can't find bluetooth keyboard

You need to provide a lot more information.

What is your Bluetooth hardware?
Does Bluetooth work at all on your system?  Does it work with other devices?


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#3 2019-05-20 19:14:25

Cinbu
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Registered: 2016-12-27
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Re: Laptop can't find bluetooth keyboard

Bluetooth works from both sides. I tried it with my phone. I can connect my laptop with my phone and I can connect the phone with the keyboard.
Yet the laptop can't find the keyboard when scanning. I also checked it with Windows, from where I can connect the laptop with the keyboard.
So I guess it is a software issue.

I tried to figure out what bluetooth hardware I have, but couldn't find it out using lshw or lspci. Maybe I have missed it due to the cryptic name.

When I use dmesg I get this, so it seems bluetooth is working in general:

$dmesg | grep -i bluetooth
[    3.974533] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.22
 [    3.974550] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
 [    3.974553] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
 [    3.974555] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
 [    3.974558] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
 [16999.805599] audit: type=1130 audit(1558297307.859:113): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=bluetooth comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=?  res=success'
 [16999.812324] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
 [16999.812325] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
 [16999.812328] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
 [16999.853859] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
 [16999.853865] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
 [16999.853870] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11}}

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#4 2019-05-22 16:15:55

quan2m
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Registered: 2012-01-27
Posts: 7

Re: Laptop can't find bluetooth keyboard

Something whacky is going on with post 5.1+ kernels and bluetooth keyboards. I just downgraded for the first time in at 7yrs to fix the bluetooth keyboard problem. 5.0.13 seems to be last kernel that behaves in a sane fashion.

The downgrade tool works very well. Thus far everything seems to be working fine with downgrading just linux and linux-headers

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/do … g_packages

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