Description of problem: Control-Center can't fild bluetooth adapter. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: export LANC=C; gnome-control-center klick "Bluetooth" Empty window saying "Keine Bluetooth-Adapter gefunden" (No bluetooth adapters found) lsusb says: Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0a5c:21e6 Broadcom Corp. BCM20702 Bluetooth 4.0 [ThinkPad] But problem to load firmware: [root@jerry ~]# journalctl | grep BCM Dez 13 15:05:06 jerry.gold kernel: bluetooth hci0: Direct firmware load for brcm/BCM20702A0-0a5c-21e6.hcd failed with error -2 Dez 13 15:05:06 jerry.gold kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: patch brcm/BCM20702A0-0a5c-21e6.hcd not found Not sure if this is just a control-center issue or a kernel problem.
I'm seeing something similar with Fedora 21 (with xfce) and device 0a5c:21e8. I've applied some firmware found on the net, and the resulting dmesg output looks better: Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: firmware hci_ver=06 hci_rev=153a lmp_ver=06 lmp_subver=220e However, still no bluetooth adapters found by control-center. A USB dongle that used to work (0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio) is also not found. Other possibly relevant fact: I'm using the xfce environment. Perhaps gnome-control-center is missing a library that it needs for detection of bluetooth adapters.
See for details https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1133378
(In reply to Stan King from comment #1) <snip> > Other possibly relevant fact: I'm using the xfce environment. Perhaps > gnome-control-center is missing a library that it needs for detection of > bluetooth adapters. It needs services provided by gnome-settings-daemon. If gnome-settings-daemon isn't running, it won't work. In any case, gnome-control-center doesn't load firmwares, that's not its job. The kernel should ship the firmware.
The kernel package hasn't shipped firmware in a very long time.
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User of T530[*] here. Bluetooth device[**] is recognized and basic commands of bluetoothctl seems to work, however the kerne[***] also indicates a firmware issue for me: [693475.116286] usbcore: registered new interface driver btusb [693475.121429] bluetooth hci0: Direct firmware load for brcm/BCM20702A0-0a5c-21e6.hcd failed with error -2 [693475.121435] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: patch brcm/BCM20702A0-0a5c-21e6.hcd not found [*] # dmidecode -s bios-version; dmidecode -s bios-release-date > G4ET93WW (2.53 ) > 02/22/2013 [**] # lsusb | grep Blue > Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0a5c:21e6 Broadcom Corp. BCM20702 Bluetooth 4.0 [ThinkPad] [***] # uname -r > 4.0.4-301.fc22.x86_64
Hope I'm not hijacking I get a similar error but Bluetooth appears to work as in sending files from phone to box (Frankenfedora-diy-pc) Gateway Motherboard I have downloaded a patch from: http://plugable.com/2014/06/23/plugable-usb-bluetooth-adapter-solving-hfphsp-profile-issues-on-linux lsusb | grep Broad Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0a5c:21e8 Broadcom Corp. BCM20702A0 Bluetooth 4.0 journalctl -b | grep bluetooth systemd-modules-load[598]: Inserted module 'bluetooth' kernel: bluetooth hci0: Direct firmware load for brcm/BCM20702A1-0a5c-21e8.hcd failed with error -2 bluetoothd[839]: Bluetooth daemon 5.32 dmidecode -s bios-version; dmidecode -s bios-release-date F7a 02/25/2014
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I think it's safe to say that this Bluetooth device is not supported by Linux, without jumping through various hoops that supply the device with a firmware patch. Except for those whose device is on their motherboard, it might be easier to move on to a device that is supported.
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This happens on my Lenovo X230 and Fedora 23. AFAIK this HW should be supported by Red Hat. # dmesg [281561.768931] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: chip id 63 [281561.784884] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM20702A [281561.785943] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM20702A1 (001.002.014) build 0000 [281561.786046] bluetooth hci0: Direct firmware load for brcm/BCM20702A1-0a5c-21e6.hcd failed with error -2 [281561.786051] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: Patch brcm/BCM20702A1-0a5c-21e6.hcd not found # dmidecode -s bios-version; dmidecode -s bios-release-date G2ET95WW (2.55 ) 07/09/2013 # lsusb | grep Blue Bus 001 Device 020: ID 0a5c:21e6 Broadcom Corp. BCM20702 Bluetooth 4.0 [ThinkPad]
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