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defunctlizrd

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Registered: 2019-07-27

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Troubles Bluetooth on Thinkpad.

I'm trying to set up bluetooth on my new thinkpad t420. I've installed `bluez` and `bluez-utils`, and set it as a systemd service.

`sudo systemctl status bluetooth.service` says that it is running, but different front ends like the gnome-control-panel, and cinnamon's `blueberry` don't work at all, saying that a bluetooth device is not connected.

Am I doing this right or am I making some mistake?

xerxes_

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Registered: 2018-04-29

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Re: Troubles Bluetooth on Thinkpad.

Try bluetoothctl from bluez-utils or blueman-manager. Maybe you also need do "modeprobe btusb" before you start with bluetooth. To check if it's loaded do

lsmod | grep btusb

Last edited by xerxes_ (2019-08-23 10:13:50)

torors

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Registered: 2012-09-28

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Re: Troubles Bluetooth on Thinkpad.

What is the output of

rfkill

defunctlizrd

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Registered: 2019-07-27

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Re: Troubles Bluetooth on Thinkpad.

What is the output of

rfkill

rfkill:

ID TYPE DEVICE      SOFT      HARD
0 wlan phy0   unblocked unblocked

No results for `lsmod | grep btusb`

xerxes_

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Re: Troubles Bluetooth on Thinkpad.

So, as I wrote in post #2 load Bluetooth kernel module by command:

sudo modeprobe btusb

and then try (from terminal) bluetoothctl from bluez-utils package:

sudo bluetoothctl

and in interactive mode this commands one by one:

(interactive): (press hardware button bluetooth),help,show,list,devices,power on,scan on,agent on,pair MAC_adr,connect MAC_adr,info MAC_adr,disconnect MAC_adr,agent off,scan off,power off,(press hw_button),exit

Or instead bluetoothctl you may try GUI aplication blueman-manager from blueman package.

Last edited by xerxes_ (2019-08-23 22:41:41)