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Artix Linux => System => Topic started by: le2m on 28 February 2022, 04:28:32

Title: bluetooth can't power on
Post by: le2m on 28 February 2022, 04:28:32
I am having some trouble to turn on my bluetooth. I am running Artix with runit

I installed all packages that I understand that are important

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$ pacman -Qs bluetooth
local/bluelog 1.1.2-1
    A highly configurable Linux Bluetooth scanner with optional web interface
local/blueman 2.2.4-1
    GTK+ Bluetooth Manager
local/bluez 5.63-1
    Daemons for the bluetooth protocol stack
local/bluez-hid2hci 5.63-1
    Put HID proxying bluetooth HCI's into HCI mode
local/bluez-libs 5.63-1
    Deprecated libraries for the bluetooth protocol stack
local/bluez-utils 5.63-1
    Development and debugging utilities for the bluetooth protocol stack
local/hidapi 0.11.2-1
    Simple library for communicating with USB and Bluetooth HID devices
local/libldac 2.0.2.3-1
    LDAC Bluetooth encoder library
local/pulseaudio-bluetooth 15.0-1
    Bluetooth support for PulseAudio
local/sbc 1.5-2
    Bluetooth Subband Codec (SBC) library



My user is part of the lp group, and I tried to start bluetoothctl with sudo. Not sure what I am missing.

I came to doubt that my computer does not have bluetooth, but my memory and this suggest me that it does

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sudo dmesg | grep -i bluetooth
[   10.803609] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.22
[   10.803628] NET: Registered PF_BLUETOOTH protocol family
[   10.803629] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[   10.803633] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[   10.803634] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[   10.803637] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[   10.936163] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[   10.936166] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[   10.936168] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized


When I run bluetoothctl (with or without sudo) and run power on I get

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[bluetooth]# power on
No default controller available
any suggestions?
Title: Re: bluetooth can't power on
Post by: Krellnus on 28 February 2022, 09:25:05
Sometimes the physical bluetooth device is disabled, what is the output of?

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rfkill
Title: Re: bluetooth can't power on
Post by: le2m on 28 February 2022, 12:29:11
for better or worse, I get no output.

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$ rfkill
08:27:24 [computersname][user]:~
Title: Re: bluetooth can't power on
Post by: Krellnus on 01 March 2022, 01:14:22
Quote from: le2m – on
for better or worse, I get no output.

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$ rfkill
08:27:24 [computersname][user]:~
That means, for one reason or another, your system isn't picking up any wireless devices. Are you able to connect to Wi-Fi ok? It's possible your vendor requires a bluetooth driver that isn't in the default kernel (I'm assuming that's what you're on). So you might have to find out which driver your vendor requires.

Does
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lsmod | grep "bluetooth"

Return anything?
Title: Re: bluetooth can't power on
Post by: SGOrava on 01 March 2022, 21:46:46
Hello, I know almost nothing about bluetooth, so let me try:

Have you installed "bluez-runit" package and enabled "bluetoothd" service which it provides?
Title: Re: bluetooth can't power on
Post by: le2m on 02 March 2022, 14:58:11
Quote from: Krellnus – on
That means, for one reason or another, your system isn't picking up any wireless devices. Are you able to connect to Wi-Fi ok? It's possible your vendor requires a bluetooth driver that isn't in the default kernel (I'm assuming that's what you're on). So you might have to find out which driver your vendor requires.

Does
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lsmod | grep "bluetooth"

Return anything?

I do *not* have wifi. All of this is happenning in my workstation in which I use ethernet. Again, I am confident that I have bluetooth due the dmesg message I showed in my first post. But I might be mistaken.

The command you asked:

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$ lsmod | grep "bluetooth"
bluetooth             770048  7 bnep
ecdh_generic           16384  1 bluetooth
rfkill                 32768  2 bluetooth
crc16                  16384  2 bluetooth,ext4

Quote from: SGOrava – on
Hello, I know almost nothing about bluetooth, so let me try:

Have you installed "bluez-runit" package and enabled "bluetoothd" service which it provides?
Yes! bluez-runit is installed and enabled!
Title: Re: bluetooth can't power on
Post by: calvinh on 02 March 2022, 21:23:49
post,

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$sudo lsusb | grep Bluetooth
Title: Re: bluetooth can't power on
Post by: Krellnus on 02 March 2022, 23:34:00
Quote from: le2m – on
I do *not* have wifi. All of this is happenning in my workstation in which I use ethernet. Again, I am confident that I have bluetooth due the dmesg message I showed in my first post. But I might be mistaken.
Since this is on your workstation, is this bluetooth built into the motherboard or is it an external device like a usb dongle?

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The command you asked:

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$ lsmod | grep "bluetooth"
bluetooth             770048  7 bnep
ecdh_generic           16384  1 bluetooth
rfkill                 32768  2 bluetooth
crc16                  16384  2 bluetooth,ext4
Looks like you're loading bluetooth modules alright, have you tried installing bluez-utils-compat from the AUR, you might be using an older bluetooth device and that package contains libraries for them.
Title: Re: bluetooth can't power on
Post by: le2m on 03 March 2022, 14:11:07
Quote from: calvinh – on
post,

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$sudo lsusb | grep Bluetooth
I do not have this command. Do you know which package I should install to run it?

Quote from: Krellnus – on
Since this is on your workstation, is this bluetooth built into the motherboard or is it an external device like a usb dongle?
It is not an external device. I think it is built into the motherboard.

Quote from: Krellnus – on
Looks like you're loading bluetooth modules alright, have you tried installing bluez-utils-compat from the AUR, you might be using an older bluetooth device and that package contains libraries for them.
I was not able to install this yet. It seems it missed systemd  :o
I will take a look into this possibility later, thx!
Title: Re: bluetooth can't power on
Post by: calvinh on 03 March 2022, 14:16:51
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I do not have this command. Do you know which package I should install to run it?

usbutils
Title: Re: bluetooth can't power on
Post by: le2m on 03 March 2022, 20:54:39
Quote from: calvinh – on
usbutils
it comes empty

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$ lsusb | grep "bluetooth"
16:53:30 [computersname][user]:~
Title: Re: bluetooth can't power on
Post by: strajder on 03 March 2022, 20:56:30
Quote from: le2m – on
it comes empty

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$ lsusb | grep "bluetooth"
16:53:30 [computersname][user]:~
Make that
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$ lsusb | grep -i bluetooth
Anyway, try also the wiki page (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Bluetooth#Troubleshooting). (Ignore systemd-specific commands, naturally.)
Title: Re: bluetooth can't power on
Post by: calvinh on 03 March 2022, 21:16:31
Read the posts carefully, pls

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$sudo lsusb | grep Bluetooth

or more generically,

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$sudo lsusb | grep -i Bluetooth
Title: Re: bluetooth can't power on
Post by: le2m on 03 March 2022, 22:04:17
Quote from: calvinh – on
Read the posts carefully, pls

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$sudo lsusb | grep Bluetooth

or more generically,

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$sudo lsusb | grep -i Bluetooth
my apologies. But the behavior was the same

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$ sudo lsusb | grep -i Bluetooth
18:00:20 [euphoria][lucas](master):~

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Make that
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$ lsusb | grep -i bluetooth
Anyway, try also the wiki page (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Bluetooth#Troubleshooting). (Ignore systemd-specific commands, naturally.)

I have been in this week a few times already. But I will give another go! Thx!
Title: Re: bluetooth can't power on
Post by: calvinh on 03 March 2022, 22:10:34
Not sure your system has bluetooth installed. Try to verify,

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$sudo pacman -S hwinfo

$sudo hwinfo > /tmp/hwinfo
Title: Re: bluetooth can't power on
Post by: le2m on 07 March 2022, 18:49:04
Quote from: calvinh – on
Not sure your system has bluetooth installed. Try to verify,

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$sudo pacman -S hwinfo

$sudo hwinfo > /tmp/hwinfo

Followed your commands, the results are here https://gist.github.com/lucasemmoreira/06f470bdd22f888d4c20b88062184447
Title: Re: bluetooth can't power on
Post by: strajder on 07 March 2022, 19:12:13
Also see https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,3775.msg24501#msg24501
Title: Re: bluetooth can't power on
Post by: le2m on 09 March 2022, 12:43:25
Quote from: strajder – on
Also see https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,3775.msg24501#msg24501
Thanks  for the reply! I have spent some time on bluetooth's arch wiki with no luck...

I am not currently using pipewire. Would you recomment to me use pipewire in this case?
Title: Re: bluetooth can't power on
Post by: strajder on 09 March 2022, 12:56:57
I already answered that here (https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,3775.msg24551.html#msg24551).
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