I’m trying to connect my bluetooth-earphones with my lenovo thinkpad (netrunner 17.10)
When I open the bluetooth-applet in the systray I can see the device (jbl everest 100). And I get the Information: address /paired yes / trusted yes / adapter name of notebook (hci0).
But always when i click the Connect-Button there is a message that the Connection is not possible.
Bluetooth seems to be deactivated. A click on the button to activate is without success.
On that notebook I have a win7 os and with that os the connection is no problem.
I already have the newest pulseaudio-module-bluetooth installed. And restart of pulseaudio and bluetooth doesn’t help.
Btw.
bluetooth isn’t blocked
sudo rfkill list
0: tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
3: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
Thanks for your reply. But the problem is not to connect to a device. The problem is, there is even no bluetooth adapter in netrunner. I checked it with other os. The hardware is perfect, but blueman says, after activating, there is nor adapter?
Then the driver or the firmware necessary to run the bluetooth chip is missing.
Do you happen to know which chip that is?
You can check so with kinfocenter or lspci
Also make sure that the bluez-firmware is installed.
does not include bluetooth support. So it must be some other bluetooth device you have.
Would be nice if you could run lsmod on manjaro to check which driver it is using there.
Usually we ship all drivers. Maybe the drivers are out of date and you need a newer firmware and/or kernel package.
Also can you tell us the specific Thinkpad model you have. Might be also good to take a look at that as the documentation for this is pretty good.
edit: I fear it might be a broadcom chip that you have. Can you run dmesg to be sure (grep for bluetooth).
If I am correct you need to manually download this firmware as debian does not provide it.
You can get the newest broadcom bt firmware files from here: https://github.com/winterheart/broadcom-bt-firmware (the ones in brcm folder with the *.hcd extension)
Depending on the dmesg output firmware: failed to load message you need to download the right .hcd file for your bt device and put it in /lib/firmware/brcm.
I hope that this might help you getting it to work.
Thank you for your answer. With manjaro I found the firmware-file BCM20702A1-0a5c-21e6.hcd. In netrunner I downloaded it to /lib/firmware/brcm. Restart of the os. But the situation doesn’t changed. → no adapter found. There are a lot of other files in /lib/firmware/brcm . Must I delete this files first? Or have I to do something else with the .hcd-file?
[code]systemctl status bluetooth
● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Wed 2018-01-03 10:46:07 CET; 1h 3min ago
Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
Main PID: 566 (bluetoothd)
Status: “Running”
Tasks: 1 (limit: 4915)
CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service
└─566 /usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd
Jan 03 10:46:06 debian-notebook systemd[1]: Starting Bluetooth service…
Jan 03 10:46:07 debian-notebook bluetoothd[566]: Bluetooth daemon 5.45
Jan 03 10:46:07 debian-notebook systemd[1]: Started Bluetooth service.
Jan 03 10:46:07 debian-notebook bluetoothd[566]: Starting SDP server
Jan 03 10:46:09 debian-notebook bluetoothd[566]: Bluetooth management interface 1.14 initialized
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Everythings seems to be fine. Nevertheless, there is no adapter in the blueman-applet or in the bluetooth-applet coming with kde …