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I am using a Lenovo B590 running Debian Jessie

❆ ~ け (ke) ➭ lsusb
Bus 004 Device 004: ID 058f:6366 Alcor Micro Corp. Multi Flash Reader
Bus 004 Device 003: ID 2516:0004
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 004: ID 1bcf:2c0c Sunplus Innovation Technology Inc.
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 04ca:2007 Lite-On Technology Corp.
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0461:4d0f Primax Electronics, Ltd HP Optical Mouse
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

dmesg

❆ ~ を (o) ➭ dmesg | grep -i 'blue'
[    6.164430] thinkpad_acpi: rfkill switch tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: radio is unblocked
[   21.806305] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.17
[   21.806345] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[   21.806352] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[   21.806355] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[   21.806359] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[   23.516886] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[   23.516891] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[   23.516899] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
[  394.437579] Bluetooth: HIDP (Human Interface Emulation) ver 1.2
[  394.437589] Bluetooth: HIDP socket layer initialized

But still nothing found

❆ ~ に (ni) ➭ hcitool dev
Devices:
❆ ~ く (ku) ➭ hcitool scan
Device is not available: No such device

Devices

❆ ~ ト (to) ➭ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller (rev 04)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev c4)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev c4)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev c4)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family U        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: noSB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation HM77 Express Chipset LPC Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series Chipset Family 6-port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 04)
02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 802.11b/g/n (rev 01)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 07)

Rfkill list

❆ ~ カ (ka) ➭ rfkill list
0: tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: Bluetooth
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no

Bluetooth is enabled (as seen in /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth), I have installed bluez/blueman/gnome-applet

When I try to run bt-device I get

❆ ~ リ (ri) ➭ bt-device -l
**
ERROR:lib/bluez/adapter.c:165:adapter_get_dbus_object_path: assertion failed (ADAPTER_IS(self))
[1]    10579 abort      bt-device -l

Any ideas ?

Hennes
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Zack Dibe
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It looks like a bug in bluez-utils: https://github.com/khvzak/bluez-tools/issues/23

A workaround proposed here is to reload the btusb kernel module.

rmmod btusb
modprobe btusb
Dunatotatos
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The reason is that you don't have right drivers for the chip to work. I also have the same Broadcom device on my laptop and take my word, it is the worst network device out there.

The reason behind that is, first, it is a combined chip for both Bluetooth and Wireless LAN. Second, the driver. I have wasted a lot of time finding drivers for Ubuntu.

If it's any help, you can install drivers in Ubuntu by this command-

sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source

(First you have to update the repository by apt-get update.)

Ubuntu is also a Debian based OS, so the binaries should be compatible (I am not completely sure). You can test this package in Debian. Maybe the trick will work.

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Rishabh Soni
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I have been looking for this issue and solve it. So here is my solution

  • Hardware: Lenovo Thinkpad T460s
  • OS: Linux
  • Distro:
$ uname -a
Linux localhost 5.10.0-19-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.149-2 (2022-10-21) x86_64 GNU/Linux
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