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[SOLVED] How to Make a USB Bluetooth Dongle Work with Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia (Cinnamon 3.6.6)?

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[SOLVED] How to Make a USB Bluetooth Dongle Work with Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia (Cinnamon 3.6.6)?

Post by mintyfreshuser » Sat Jan 06, 2018 11:28 pm

I’m using Linux 18.3 Sylvia with Cinnamon 3.6.6 desktop environment and I’m having a problem getting Bluetooth to work with my computer.

I’m using a USB Bluetooth dongle. I know that the dongle works because I used it on another operating system and it worked then.

The Bluetooth devices that I’ve tried paring don’t show up at all when I scan for them using the Bluetooth software that I’ve tried.

So far I’ve tried using the Linux Bluetooth programs called «Blueman» and «Blueberry», but neither of them have worked.

With that said, what can I do to make this USB dongle work with this version of Linux Mint?

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Re: How to Make a USB Bluetooth Dongle Work with Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia (Cinnamon 3.6.6)?

Post by jwrober » Fri Jan 12, 2018 12:49 pm

Can you provide more details? for example what is the manufacturer of the BT dongle? Have you checked the syslog to see what kernel messages are coming up for bluetooth? More than likely the BT dongle uses broadcom chip inside and you will need to get a proprietary firmware for it to work.

I had similar challenges in my thread here that might help you

Re: How to Make a USB Bluetooth Dongle Work with Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia (Cinnamon 3.6.6)?

Post by mintyfreshuser » Fri Jan 12, 2018 7:59 pm

jwrober wrote: Can you provide more details? for example what is the manufacturer of the BT dongle? Have you checked the syslog to see what kernel messages are coming up for bluetooth? More than likely the BT dongle uses broadcom chip inside and you will need to get a proprietary firmware for it to work.

I had similar challenges in my thread here that might help you

Hi. Thank you for replying.

I’m not sure who manufactured the Bluetooth dongle, but it looks like this:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Bluetooth-Mini . SwWKtUrIHZ.

I don’t know how to check the syslog to see what kernel messages come up for Bluetooth. What do you type in the terminal to do that?

Right now I’m using the graphical Bluetooth manager called Blueman if that helps.

I’ve gotten these messages: «Device added successfully, but failed to connect» and «Connection Failed: blueman.bluez.errors.DBusFailedError: Host is down».

Re: How to Make a USB Bluetooth Dongle Work with Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia (Cinnamon 3.6.6)?

Post by jwrober » Tue Jan 16, 2018 5:11 pm

Re: How to Make a USB Bluetooth Dongle Work with Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia (Cinnamon 3.6.6)?

Post by JeremyB » Tue Jan 16, 2018 5:50 pm

Wireless Script

Re: How to Make a USB Bluetooth Dongle Work with Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia (Cinnamon 3.6.6)?

Post by mintyfreshuser » Thu Jan 18, 2018 11:50 pm

This is what came up after I entered lsusb.

«mintyfresh@MintyFresh ~ $ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0438:7900 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 04f2:b56c Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:0177 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 046d:c534 Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0438:7900 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 004: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub»

Re: How to Make a USB Bluetooth Dongle Work with Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia (Cinnamon 3.6.6)?

Post by mintyfreshuser » Thu Jan 18, 2018 11:51 pm

This is what came up after I entered dmesg | grep Blue.

«mintyfresh@MintyFresh ~ $ dmesg | grep Blue
[ 2.858230] usb 3-2: Product: Bluetooth V2.0 Dongle
[ 13.612440] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.22
[ 13.612485] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 13.612493] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 13.612498] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 13.612509] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[ 14.362715] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[ 14.362718] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[ 14.362727] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
[ 17.764559] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[ 17.764575] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[ 17.764586] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11
[14368.341184] usb 3-2: Product: Bluetooth V2.0 Dongle»

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Re: How to Make a USB Bluetooth Dongle Work with Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia (Cinnamon 3.6.6)?

Post by phd21 » Fri Jan 19, 2018 2:21 am

I just read your post and the good replies to it. Here are my thoughts on this as well.

It would help to know more about your system setup. If you run » inxi -Fxzd » from the console terminal prompt, highlight the results, copy and paste them back here, that should provide enough information.

I have what appears to be the same type of USB Bluetooth Adapter (from Amazon.com) and when I boot up Cinnamon 18.3 it works just fine using «blueberry» Bluetooth. Works well in Linux Mint 18.2 KDE too. After I put the Bluetooth device I wanted in pairing mode, It took at least a minute on my older computer before it recognized it, but then it worked perfectly. It was quickly recognized after the first pairing.

Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)

Exactly what Bluetooth devices are you trying to connect with?

I connected a Bluetooth headset Motorola HT820 (and a Bluetooth stereo clock radio that is recognized as a headset), then I had to tell the sound system to use it which can be done from the system tray volume control (right-click, or regular click to Sound Settings) or from the Menu -> System Settings ->Sound.

On either Bluetooth device, it shows two sound options:
High Fidelity Playback A2DP Sink — volume controlled by computer and Bluetooth device, better sound, but no microphone option just speakers.
or
Headset Head Unit HSP/HFP (default) — volume controlled by Bluetooth device only and has microphone options, sound was not as good on mine.

FYI: I do not recommend using «passive» USB hubs which do not have their own power supply because they do not work well in Linux, or worse they work intermittently.

Phd21 : Mint 20 Cinnamon & xKDE (Mint Xfce + Kubuntu KDE) & KDE Neon 64-bit (new based on Ubuntu 20.04) Awesome OS’s , Dell Inspiron I5 7000 (7573) 2 in 1 touch screen, Dell OptiPlex 780 Core2Duo E8400 3GHz,4gb Ram, Intel 4 Graphics.

Re: How to Make a USB Bluetooth Dongle Work with Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia (Cinnamon 3.6.6)?

Post by mintyfreshuser » Sat Jan 20, 2018 2:27 am

phd21 wrote: Hi «mintyfreshuser»,

I just read your post and the good replies to it. Here are my thoughts on this as well.

It would help to know more about your system setup. If you run » inxi -Fxzd » from the console terminal prompt, highlight the results, copy and paste them back here, that should provide enough information.

Hi. Thanks for your reply. Here are the results:

mintyfresh@MintyFresh ~ $ inxi -Fxzd
System: Host: MintyFresh Kernel: 4.10.0-38-generic x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 5.4.0)
Desktop: Cinnamon 3.6.6 (Gtk 3.18.9-1ubuntu3.3)
Distro: Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia
Machine: System: HP (portable) product: HP Notebook v: Type1ProductConfigId
Mobo: HP model: 8305 v: KBC Version 73.16
Bios: Insyde v: F.25 date: 01/19/2017
CPU: Quad core AMD E2-7110 APU with AMD Radeon R2 Graphics (-MCP-) cache: 8192 KB
flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm) bmips: 14373
clock speeds: max: 1800 MHz 1: 1800 MHz 2: 1500 MHz 3: 1350 MHz
4: 1650 MHz
Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Mullins [Radeon R3 Graphics]
bus-ID: 00:01.0
Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: 1366×768@60.00hz, 1920×1080@60.00hz
GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD MULLINS (DRM 2.49.0 / 4.10.0-38-generic, LLVM 4.0.0)
GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 17.0.7 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card-1 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] FCH Azalia Controller
driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:14.2
Card-2 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Kabini HDMI/DP Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:01.1
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.10.0-38-generic
Network: Card-1: Realtek RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller
driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: 3000 bus-ID: 02:00.0
IF: enp2s0 state: down mac:
Card-2: Realtek RTL8188EE Wireless Network Adapter
driver: rtl8188ee port: 2000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
IF: wlo1 state: up mac:
Drives: HDD Total Size: 628.0GB (18.1% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: SanDisk_SDSSDH35 size: 500.1GB
ID-2: USB /dev/sdb model: SD/MMC/MS_PRO size: 127.9GB
Optical: No optical drives detected.
Partition: ID-1: / size: 443G used: 37G (9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-0
ID-2: /boot size: 473M used: 69M (16%) fs: ext2 dev: /dev/sda2
ID-3: swap-1 size: 16.07GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/dm-1
RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 65.0C mobo: 0.0C gpu: 66.0
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 240 Uptime: 3:01 Memory: 2129.0/15005.4MB
Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 5.4.0
Client: Shell (bash 4.3.481) inxi: 2.2.35

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USB-bluetooth drivers for Ubuntu 16.04

I need to add bluetooth to my desktop Ubuntu machine, running 16.04. Do I need to buy a specific USB-adapter for driver-support, or can I go pickup basically anything, and it should have support and work?

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A well-trod path for this is already on the Ubuntu wiki:

The page is maintained by the community — if you discover updated or new information, please share.

to add to this, if you shop on amazon.com or newegg.com many of the product descriptions will say if they support linux. Both of those websites have very good policies for returns so if it turns out not to work they will allow you to return it as defective if it will not work in linux if the description says it will. I have purchased multiple things for my linux box at both sites and have never had an issue getting it to work if it says it’s Linux compatible.

@user535733: I have another device working with Ubuntu 18.04, but not listed on this listing. Where can I notify the community to add such device to this list?

@pt12lol — YOU are a member of the community, too. Make an account, edit the page. While there, update a couple more pages also.

I’ve had a problem with getting Bluetooth audio (well any bluetooth connection) to work with Ubuntu 16:04 on my HP Envy 17 which runs a Broadcom Limited BCM4352 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [14e4:43b1] (rev 03).

After a lot of searching over the last two years, I had a clue in that there was a missing firmware driver error:

bluetooth hci0: Direct firmware load for brcm/BCM20702A1-0a5c-21fb.hcd failed with error -2

so it was just a matter of tracking down the missing piece of firmware and copying into /lib/firmware/brcm/ which I found at github:

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