No Bluetooth Adapters Found

I added a Bluetooth adapter to my computer (a stand-alone USB dongle) and Manjaro isn’t identifying it.

I read in a similar post (I tried adding a link to it but got an error that I’m not allowed to do that) that an Editor (whatever that role is, I’m new here so I don’t know) asked for minimally information from inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width so here’s mine:

System:
  Kernel: 5.10.34-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10-x86_64 
  root=UUID=d60d340b-4e73-4db3-9e0a-c2a303e7b43f rw quiet apparmor=1 
  security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3 
  Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.21.4 tk: Qt 5.15.2 info: latte-dock wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 
  dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: Z97X-UD5H v: x.x serial: <filter> 
  UEFI: American Megatrends v: F10 date: 08/03/2015 
Battery:
  Message: No system battery data found. Is one present? 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 15.48 GiB used: 7.02 GiB (45.3%) 
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:
  Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-4770K bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Haswell family: 6 model-id: 3C (60) stepping: 3 microcode: 28 cache: 
  L2: 8 MiB bogomips: 55870 
  Speed: 3862 MHz min/max: 800/3900 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 3862 2: 3886 
  3: 3840 4: 3891 5: 3889 6: 3888 7: 3803 8: 3823 
  Flags: abm acpi aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts 
  clflush cmov constant_tsc cpuid cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm 
  dts ept ept_ad erms est f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr ht 
  ibpb ibrs ida invpcid invpcid_single lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor 
  movbe msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pdpe1gb 
  pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts rdrand rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep 
  smep ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow 
  tsc tsc_adjust tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid xsave xsaveopt xtopology 
  xtpr 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled 
  Type: l1tf 
  mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable 
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
  Type: spec_store_bypass 
  mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
  Type: spectre_v1 
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, 
  IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics 
  vendor: Gigabyte driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0412 
  class-ID: 0300 
  Device-2: NVIDIA GK110 [GeForce GTX 780] vendor: Gigabyte driver: nvidia 
  v: 460.73.01 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus-ID: 01:00.0 
  chip-ID: 10de:1004 class-ID: 0300 
  Device-3: Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920 type: USB 
  driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus-ID: 3-3.3:14 chip-ID: 046d:082d 
  class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter> 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: 
  loaded: modesetting,nvidia alternate: fbdev,intel,nouveau,nv,vesa 
  display-ID: :0 screens: 1 
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 95 s-size: 513x292mm (20.2x11.5") 
  s-diag: 590mm (23.2") 
  Monitor-1: DVI-I-1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 96 
  size: 509x286mm (20.0x11.3") diag: 584mm (23") 
  OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 780/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 460.73.01 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:03.0 chip-ID: 8086:0c0c 
  class-ID: 0403 
  Device-2: Intel 9 Series Family HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:8ca0 
  class-ID: 0403 
  Device-3: Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920 type: USB 
  driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus-ID: 3-3.3:14 chip-ID: 046d:082d 
  class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter> 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.34-1-MANJARO running: yes 
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 0.125.0 running: no 
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.26 running: yes 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Ethernet I217-V vendor: Gigabyte driver: e1000e v: kernel 
  port: f080 bus-ID: 00:19.0 chip-ID: 8086:153b class-ID: 0200 
  IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E220x Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Gigabyte 
  driver: alx v: kernel port: d000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1969:e091 
  class-ID: 0200 
  IF: enp3s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global 
  broadcast: <filter> 
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link 
  WAN IP: <filter> 
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Cambridge Silicon Radio Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) type: USB 
  driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 3-3.4:26 chip-ID: 0a12:0001 class-ID: e001 
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: see --recommends 
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found. 
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found. 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 3.64 TiB used: 188.4 GiB (5.1%) 
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Toshiba model: DT01ACA200 size: 1.82 TiB 
  block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter> rev: ABB0 scheme: GPT 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 type: USB vendor: Western Digital 
  model: WD My Passport 0827 size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 512 B 
  logical: 512 B serial: <filter> rev: 1012 scheme: MBR 
  Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: HL-DT-ST model: DVDRAM GH24NSB0 rev: LN00 
  dev-links: cdrom 
  Features: speed: 12 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes 
  rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 845.78 GiB size: 831.43 GiB (98.30%) 
  used: 188.4 GiB (22.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda9 maj-min: 8:9 label: N/A 
  uuid: d60d340b-4e73-4db3-9e0a-c2a303e7b43f 
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 550 MiB size: 548.9 MiB (99.80%) 
  used: 324 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda8 maj-min: 8:8 label: NO_LABEL 
  uuid: B02C-B004 
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default) 
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 29.8 GiB used: 1.8 MiB (0.0%) 
  priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 label: N/A 
  uuid: ada25305-bbca-4564-b0c7-e6f39d71838b 
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 size: 1007 KiB fs: <superuser required> 
  label: N/A uuid: N/A 
  ID-2: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3 size: 498.62 GiB fs: ext4 label: N/A 
  uuid: d0ec6ee7-91f6-4dc5-80dd-0c495102a08c 
  ID-3: /dev/sda4 maj-min: 8:4 size: 100 MiB fs: vfat label: N/A 
  uuid: B27C-3322 
  ID-4: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5 size: 16 MiB fs: <superuser required> 
  label: N/A uuid: N/A 
  ID-5: /dev/sda6 maj-min: 8:6 size: 487.67 GiB fs: ntfs label: N/A 
  uuid: 761686031685C519 
  ID-6: /dev/sda7 maj-min: 8:7 size: 505 MiB fs: ntfs label: N/A 
  uuid: 483268BB3268AF9C 
  ID-7: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17 size: 1.72 TiB fs: ntfs 
  label: Gal's External HDD uuid: F474B7AA74B76DCC 
  ID-8: /dev/sdb2 maj-min: 8:18 size: 100.34 GiB fs: ext4 
  label: gal-external-hdd uuid: c4a13096-90fc-404e-bffb-1c44844c2560 
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-2: 1-1:2 info: Intel ports: 6 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
  chip-ID: 8087:8009 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-4: 2-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Hub ports: 8 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
  chip-ID: 8087:8001 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-5: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 14 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-6: 3-3:2 info: Hitachi ports: 4 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s 
  chip-ID: 045b:0209 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 3-3.1:25 info: Contour Design Unimouse type: HID 
  driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s 
  power: 100mA chip-ID: 0b33:1056 class-ID: 0301 
  Device-2: 3-3.2:6 info: Western Digital My Passport 0827 type: Mass Storage 
  driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA 
  chip-ID: 1058:0827 class-ID: 0806 serial: <filter> 
  Device-3: 3-3.3:14 info: Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920 type: Video,Audio 
  driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
  power: 500mA chip-ID: 046d:082d class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter> 
  Device-4: 3-3.4:26 info: Cambridge Silicon Radio Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) 
  type: Bluetooth driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s 
  power: 100mA chip-ID: 0a12:0001 class-ID: e001 
  Hub-7: 3-5:3 info: Microchip (formerly SMSC) USB 2.0 Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s power: 2mA chip-ID: 0424:2514 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 3-9:5 info: Contour Design Contour Receiver 
  type: Keyboard,Mouse,HID driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 0b33:2000 class-ID: 0300 
  serial: <filter> 
  Device-2: 3-10:7 info: ASUSTek ROG Claymore Gaming Keyboard 
  type: Keyboard,HID driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 1.1 
  speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 0b05:184d class-ID: 0300 
  Hub-8: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 6 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s 
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-9: 4-3:2 info: Hitachi ports: 4 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s 
  chip-ID: 045b:0210 class-ID: 0900 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8 C mobo: 27.8 C gpu: nvidia temp: 36 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 19% 
Info:
  Processes: 360 Uptime: 31m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 247 tool: systemctl 
  Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 Packages: 1333 pacman: 1310 lib: 390 flatpak: 8 
  snap: 15 Shell: Zsh v: 5.8 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.04 

I’d appreciate help in getting this to work - I’m new to Manjaro and Arch.

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Shush! It’s not even human! It’s an :alien:
:joy:

It is being identified:

So, can you elaborate as to what’s going wrong exactly?

Also:

That seems to be quite old and AMI is good about updating its firmware. Have you tried upgrading the UEFI firmware (“BIOS”) yet?

:thinking:

Not only is bluetooth being identified and present, it’s running, that is, enabled, service started, and bluetooth adapter on and active, with an hci ID of hci0.

Note that bluetooth has 3 primary modes of stop / start, in sequence:

  1. service enabled, via systemctl, if not enabled, it can’t start/stop
  2. service is started via systemctl, if not started, it can’t run
  3. bluetooth adapter is on, running, and active, with an hci ID. At least 3 things can make bluetooth not run at this 3rd level, no, 4: bluetoothctl; bt-adapter; hciconfig; rfkill. Each of these can stop or start a device/adapter, but each does not always know what the other has done, but if it shows state: up then all are good.

Getting that Report item to work for inxi took me 3 tries, 3.3.04 is the one that finally locked it down so it would almost always work re the Report: state:up/down part.

So that’s not the actual question this user has, I believe.

As an aside:
inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width
is just a kind of verbose way of doing:
inxi -azyv7

--admin == -a
--verbosity=7 == -v7
--filter --no-host == -z 
--width == -y

-z activates --no-host automatically, by request, amusingly enough, of someone from Manjaro if I remember right.

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Please read this:

Skip straight to Item 10… :grin:

And why I asked:

:+1:

Let’s wait for an answer, because it could indeed be a number of things…

Chuckle, you’ll either learn and quietly change, or you’ll never learn, or you’ll slowly learn, and quietly change. Meanwhile, I’ll now and then drop in and tell people the easy fast efficient way to use inxi, and point out when things are redundant or flat out wrong (like --verbosity=7 —full). And as people realize the redundant verbose options teach nothing, obfuscate, and just make it harder, not easier, on noobs, hopefully this odd little idea will drift away… Do keep in mind, the long forms never helped you understand at all what -v[0-8] and -F do, they just confused matters. And if they confused you, imagine how noobs experienced it!!

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