Bluetooth problems on my 3 notebooks with Manjaro

Good afternoon everyone.

Guys I need some help here, I use a bluetooth adapter because I only have old notebooks and it seems that Manjaro doesn’t recognize them.

I’ve tried to follow some tips and tutorials on the internet and it didn’t work.

Can someone help me?

Here is my notebook information and a picture of the bluetooth adapter.

I know this adapter works because in Windows it works normally.

I tried follow some tutorials and it didn’t work.

● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
     Active: active (running) since Tue 2021-11-30 14:19:19 -03; 27min ago
       Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
   Main PID: 3018 (bluetoothd)
     Status: "Running"
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 19078)
     Memory: 2.2M
        CPU: 167ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service
             └─3018 /usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd

nov 30 14:19:19 guOfMidNight bluetoothd[3018]: Bluetooth management interface 1.18 initialized
nov 30 14:19:54 guOfMidNight bluetoothd[3018]: Failed to set mode: Blocked through rfkill (0x12)
nov 30 14:24:06 guOfMidNight bluetoothd[3018]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.711 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPS>
nov 30 14:24:06 guOfMidNight bluetoothd[3018]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.711 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPS>
nov 30 14:24:06 guOfMidNight bluetoothd[3018]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.711 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPS>
nov 30 14:24:06 guOfMidNight bluetoothd[3018]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.711 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPS>
nov 30 14:24:06 guOfMidNight bluetoothd[3018]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.711 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPS>
nov 30 14:24:06 guOfMidNight bluetoothd[3018]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.711 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPS>
nov 30 14:24:06 guOfMidNight bluetoothd[3018]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.711 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPS>
nov 30 14:24:06 guOfMidNight bluetoothd[3018]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.711 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPS>

NOTEBOOK INFOS: (I don’t know the terminal command :thinking:)


Bluetooth adapter - CSR 4.0

I look forward to someone’s help, but thank you very much.

What’s the output of:

rfkill list

:point_down: :wink:


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rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
1: hci0: Bluetooth
	Soft blocked: yes
	Hard blocked: no
3: hci1: Bluetooth
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no

Thank you for your help.

It’s a backtick `, not whatever this is called´. :wink:

Unblock it:

sudo rfkill unblock bluetooth

Then restart the Bluetooth service:

systemctl restart bluetooth.service

One moment please, I am doing some tests here but is not working.

I tried doing a bunch of tests and it still didn’t work.

:sob:

I really want it to work so I can turn on my speaker.

Someone could help me please?

Which were? What was the result?

Please do not make multiple posts in a row. Instead, edit your previous post.

OK, sorry

I did what you told me on the terminal, then I turned on two bluetooth speakers and one of them appeared in the bluesman and then disappeared.

the other speaker didn’t even appear.

after that i got nervous and uninstalled blueman and restarted the computer. then I tried for the bluetooth settings of the manjaro itself and none of the boxes appears.

Please post the output of the following so we can see your Bluetooth adapter details. Please use the Preformatted text button </> as outlined above:

inxi -Eazy

What’s the output after your “tests”?

rfkill list
systemctl status bluetooth
inxi -Eazy
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Apple Bluetooth Host Controller type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
  bus-ID: 1-1.1.3:8 chip-ID: 05ac:821a class-ID: fe01
  Report: rfkill ID: hci1 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: see --recommends
  Device-2: Cambridge Silicon Radio Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) type: USB
  driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 2-1.2:4 chip-ID: 0a12:0001 class-ID: e001
  Report: ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: N/A
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
1: hci0: Bluetooth
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
2: hci1: Bluetooth
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
systemctl status bluetooth
● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; vendor>
     Active: active (running) since Tue 2021-11-30 15:53:36 -03; 10min ago
       Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
   Main PID: 11559 (bluetoothd)
     Status: "Running"
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 19078)
     Memory: 904.0K
        CPU: 159ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service
             └─11559 /usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd

nov 30 15:53:36 guOfMidNight bluetoothd[11559]: Starting SDP server
nov 30 15:53:36 guOfMidNight bluetoothd[11559]: Bluetooth management inte>
nov 30 15:53:36 guOfMidNight bluetoothd[11559]: Endpoint registered: send>
nov 30 15:53:36 guOfMidNight bluetoothd[11559]: Endpoint registered: send>
nov 30 15:53:36 guOfMidNight bluetoothd[11559]: Endpoint registered: send>
nov 30 15:53:36 guOfMidNight bluetoothd[11559]: Endpoint registered: send>
nov 30 15:53:36 guOfMidNight bluetoothd[11559]: Endpoint registered: send>
nov 30 15:53:36 guOfMidNight bluetoothd[11559]: Endpoint registered: send>
nov 30 15:53:36 guOfMidNight bluetoothd[11559]: Endpoint registered: send>
nov 30 15:53:36 guOfMidNight bluetoothd[11559]: Endpoint registered: send>

Everything looks normal now, Bluetooth should be working. Why do you have two Bluetooth adapters?

Because I once decided to open my macbook to change the thermal compound and let’s say that I thought I hadn’t reconnected the bluetooth and I was preoccupied.

I took out the adapter and it still doesn’t work.

I think there’s a demon inside this notebook.

I’m going to try to do just a few more tests and if it doesn’t work can I open a new topic or speak right here?

Open a new topic for separate issues.

I give up for today. Unfortunately bluetooth still doesn’t work.

Or do you have any suggestions for a program that i can install that will solve this?

Thank you so much Yochanan, I’m going to copy what you told me in this thread and try to do it on my other 2 non-Apple notebooks with Manjaro.