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ltsdw

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Registered: 2020-04-20

Posts: 73

[Solved] Bluetooth not working on Aspire E5-573

I listed linux-firmware to IgnorePkg until it was solved but this is happening I think for more than 5 months now.

bluetooth doesn't work with none these that I have in cache:

linux-firmware-20220119
linux-firmware-whence-20220119
linux-firmware-20220209
linux-firmware-whence-20220209
linux-firmware-20220411
linux-firmware-whence-20220411

only with versions older than that, like the

linux-firmware-20211216

linux and linux-headers pkg version:

linux-5.17.7.arch1-1
linux-headers-5.17.7.arch1-1

lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Host Bridge -OPI (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 5500 (rev 09)
00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Audio Controller (rev 09)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP USB xHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP MEI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #1 (rev e3)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #3 (rev e3)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #4 (rev e3)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP USB EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP LPC Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP SATA Controller [AHCI Mode] (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP SMBus Controller (rev 03)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15)
03:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)

dmesg | grep -i bluetooth:

[   20.170287] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.22
[   20.170318] NET: Registered PF_BLUETOOTH protocol family
[   20.170320] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[   20.170324] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[   20.170327] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[   20.170332] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[   51.420226] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[   51.420231] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[   51.420236] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized

until I don't find a solution I'll keep the downgraded version of linux-firmware.

Last edited by ltsdw (2022-05-15 18:53:13)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,668

Re: [Solved] Bluetooth not working on Aspire E5-573

Bluetooth devices are in lsusb, it's likely you simply need one of the ones whose firmware got split off, in doubt install all of them to get the "same" feature parity as when the package was a single huge collection of blobs: https://archlinux.org/news/linux-firmwa … splitting/

Based on what we have here I'd hazard a guess you need linux-firmware-qcom

ltsdw

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Registered: 2020-04-20

Posts: 73

Re: [Solved] Bluetooth not working on Aspire E5-573

oh, I was missing the usbutils for the lsusb.

so, I installed all of these:

linux-firmware
inux-firmware-liquidio
inux-firmware-mellanox
linux-firmware-qcom
inux-firmware-whence                           
linux-firmware-bnx2x
linux-firmware-marvell
linux-firmware-nfp
linux-firmware-qlogic

and still not working, I noticed from the lsusb that the bluetooth device isn't showing when using these linux-firmware-* above, but it appears when using the linux-firmware-20211216.

here the lsusb output with linux-firmware-20211216:

Bus 003 Device 002: ID 8087:8001 Intel Corp. Integrated Hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 0bda:0129 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTS5129 Card Reader Controller
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 1bcf:2c81 Sunplus Innovation Technology Inc. HD WebCam
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 04ca:3014 Lite-On Technology Corp. Qualcomm Atheros Bluetooth
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 1a2c:0043 China Resource Semico Co., Ltd USB Mouse
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:8179 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188EUS 802.11n Wireless Network Adapter
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,668

Re: [Solved] Bluetooth not working on Aspire E5-573

mhm, dmesg from a working/non-working boot? And not necessarily fixated on bluetooth maybe something fails already during init of the usb device before "realisation" that  it's supposed to be for bluetooth.

ltsdw

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Registered: 2020-04-20

Posts: 73

Re: [Solved] Bluetooth not working on Aspire E5-573

while I was working on the dmesg logs you asked for, I remembered that for bluetooth to work you need to blacklist acer-wmi. I don't know if this is a thing for most acer's notebooks, but it's for this one (Aspire E5-573).

/etc/modprobe.d/acer-wmi.conf

blacklist acer-wmi

now it's working. it was only needed the linux-firmware, linux-firmware-whence and blacklisting acer-wmi.

thank you.

Last edited by ltsdw (2022-05-15 18:53:40)