#1 2016-12-30 18:54:20

BiggMatt

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Registered: 2016-12-30

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Bluetooth drivers, for a noob

Hi everyone!

I was a Crunchbang user back a year or so ago, so I studied my ways into making the pc work and had some successes.

Now, I have a new PC and I just installed BunsenLabs. But it turns out I've forgotten how to linux so...

How do I even begin installing drivers for the Bluetooth antenna my pc has?

Thanks everyone

Head_on_a_Stick

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Registered: 2015-09-29

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Re: Bluetooth drivers, for a noob

How do I even begin installing drivers for the Bluetooth antenna my pc has?

You probably don't have to do that at all, that's the sort of thing that poor Windows users have to suffer, we have pretty much all the drivers already included in the Linux kernel

However, it could be that the ageing kernel version in BunsenLabs doesn't have support for your device but it is pretty simple to change to a newer version.

Before we try that, we need to identify your device; run this command first:

sudo update-pciids

Then run this command and post the full output here:

lspci -knn

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Para todos todo, para nosotros nada

itsame

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Registered: 2016-03-18

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Re: Bluetooth drivers, for a noob

Hey, Bigmatt (if you are still around) fresh one here as well!
Following these worked to get my Bluetooth working

https://wiki.debian.org/BluetoothUser

(and this one got my speakers working, without sounding like an AM radio)
https://wiki.debian.org/BluetoothUser/a2dp

EDIT: I chose "blueman" over gnome and KDE GUI tools.

Last edited by itsame (2017-01-17 14:14:05)