#1 2021-12-13 13:17:23

Rodwin

New Member

Registered: 2021-12-13

Posts: 1

Bluetooth not working

Hi together,

I installed EndevourOS on my neighbors old 2008 iMac DualCore with 4GB RAM and Bluetooth is not working.

*** Background information:

Operating System: EndeavourOS
KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.88.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.15.7-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 2 × Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU E8135 @ 2.40GHz
Memory: 3.8 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD RV610

*** "lsmod |grep blue" outputs:

bluetooth             749568  14 btrtl,btintel,btbcm,bnep,btusb
ecdh_generic           16384  1 bluetooth
rfkill                 32768  6 bluetooth,cfg80211
crc16                  16384  2 bluetooth,ext4

*** "systemctl status bluetooth" outputs:

bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
     Active: active (running) since Mon 2021-12-13 13:37:29 CET; 24min ago
       Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
   Main PID: 355 (bluetoothd)
     Status: "Running"
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 4681)
     Memory: 2.4M
        CPU: 25ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service
             └─355 /usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd

dec 13 13:37:29 iMac systemd[1]: Starting Bluetooth service...
dec 13 13:37:29 iMac bluetoothd[355]: Bluetooth daemon 5.62
dec 13 13:37:29 iMac systemd[1]: Started Bluetooth service.
dec 13 13:37:29 iMac bluetoothd[355]: Starting SDP server
dec 13 13:37:29 iMac bluetoothd[355]: Bluetooth management interface 1.21 initialized

*** "rfkill" outputs:

ID TYPE      DEVICE      SOFT      HARD
0 bluetooth hci0   unblocked unblocked
1 wlan      phy0   unblocked unblocked

*** "lsmod |grep blue" outputs:
bluetooth             749568  14 btrtl,btintel,btbcm,bnep,btusb
ecdh_generic           16384  1 bluetooth
rfkill                 32768  6 bluetooth,cfg80211
crc16                  16384  2 bluetooth,ext4

*** "lsusb |grep Blue" outputs:

Bus 003 Device 003: ID 05ac:820f Apple, Inc. Bluetooth HCI
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0a5c:4500 Broadcom Corp. BCM2046B1 USB 2.0 Hub (part of BCM2046 Bluetooth)

But when I use bluetoothctl and enter "power on" it only outputs "No default controller available". Same for scan on and whatever. Also no device turns up in KDE connect.

I had it already working on an much older Linux Arch install, but after the HDD broke down I put a fresh linux and now it doesn't.

Does anyone have an idea what to do next? I am out of ideas and would be grateful for some steps to analyze the problem.

Hope to get some help

unklar

Back to the roots 1.9

From: #! BL

Registered: 2015-10-31

Posts: 2,698

Re: Bluetooth not working

Possibly the problem can be caused by "pipewire". Check with

LANG=C pactl info | grep '^Server Name'

if the output is "PulseAudio (On PipeWire 0.3.xx)".

Then the package libspa-0.2-bluetooth is missing.