I’ve just acquired my new laptop, and installed manjaro,
I would like to know how to properly install the bluetooth driver that allows my bluetooth module to work properly,
My bluetooth connects to one of my true wireless earphones, but doesn’t even recognize the other one while scanning for it
Also when connected to one of my tws, the voice quality is bad, I gets cut down frequently
Note: I don’t experience any connection problem with my tws devices when connected to my mobile or even another laptop with the same manjaro distro, my new laptop is HP, the old one is dell
I would appreciate your help so much, thank you
Hi @karam4134
Welcome to the Manjaro forum.
While I can’t help with your issue, if you post the output from:
inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width
… this might help others to find a solution.
Cheers.
Hi @soundofthunder, thank you for your response, here’s the output of the command
System:
Kernel: 6.5.13-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.2.1
clocksource: tsc available: acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.5-x86_64
root=UUID=d53af080-83ee-49f2-8eeb-8d5b99af207b rw
resume=UUID=9aaf043e-303e-4532-9d02-46b5e7c1adc8 quiet splash
udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.9 tk: Qt v: 5.15.11 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 2 dm: SDDM
Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Laptop 15s-fq5xxx v: N/A
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: HP model: 8A20 v: 20.19 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: AMI
v: F.17 date: 10/20/2022
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 19.3 Wh (47.1%) condition: 41.0/41.0 Wh (99.9%)
volts: 11.1 min: 11.3 model: HP Primary type: Li-ion serial: <filter>
status: discharging cycles: 8
Memory:
System RAM: total: 64 GiB note: est. available: 62.48 GiB
used: 4.71 GiB (7.5%)
RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Info: model: 12th Gen Intel Core i7-1255U bits: 64 type: MST AMCP
arch: Alder Lake level: v3 note: check built: 2021+
process: Intel 7 (10nm ESF) family: 6 model-id: 0x9A (154) stepping: 4
microcode: 0x430
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 10 mt: 2 tpc: 2 st: 8 threads: 12 smt: enabled
cache: L1: 928 KiB desc: d-8x32 KiB, 2x48 KiB; i-2x32 KiB, 8x64 KiB
L2: 6.5 MiB desc: 2x1.2 MiB, 2x2 MiB L3: 12 MiB desc: 1x12 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 519 high: 792 min/max: 400/4700:3500 scaling:
driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave cores: 1: 792 2: 671 3: 647 4: 400
5: 667 6: 400 7: 400 8: 400 9: 400 10: 400 11: 658 12: 400 bogomips: 62688
Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat
arch_capabilities arch_lbr arch_perfmon art avx avx2 avx_vnni bmi1 bmi2
bts clflush clflushopt clwb cmov constant_tsc cpuid cpuid_fault cx16 cx8
de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept ept_ad erms est f16c flexpriority
flush_l1d fma fpu fsgsbase fsrm fxsr gfni hfi ht hwp hwp_act_window
hwp_epp hwp_notify hwp_pkg_req ibpb ibrs ibrs_enhanced ibt ida intel_pt
invpcid lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor movbe movdir64b movdiri
msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx ospke pae pat pbe pclmulqdq pdcm pdpe1gb pebs
pge pku pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pts rdpid rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good
sdbg sep serialize sha_ni smap smep smx split_lock_detect ss ssbd sse sse2
sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust
tsc_deadline_timer tsc_known_freq umip vaes vme vmx vnmi vpclmulqdq vpid
waitpkg x2apic xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveopt xsaves xtopology xtpr
Vulnerabilities:
Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
Type: retbleed status: Not affected
Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
prctl
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Enhanced / Automatic IBRS, IBPB: conditional,
RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: SW sequence
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-UP3 GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-12.2 process: Intel 10nm built: 2021-22+
ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, DP-4, HDMI-A-1
bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:46a8 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Luxvisions Innotech HP TrueVision HD Camera driver: uvcvideo
type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-3:2
chip-ID: 30c9:0064 class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.9 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: :0
screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22")
s-diag: 582mm (22.93") monitors: <missing: xrandr>
Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: BOE Display 0x0991 built: 2020 res: 1920x1080
dpi: 142 gamma: 1.2 size: 344x194mm (13.54x7.64") diag: 395mm (15.5")
ratio: 16:9 modes: 1920x1080
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris platforms: device: 0 drv: iris
device: 1 drv: swrast surfaceless: drv: iris x11: drv: iris
inactive: gbm,wayland
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 23.1.9-manjaro1.1
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel Graphics (ADL GT2)
device-ID: 8086:46a8 memory: 61.02 GiB unified: yes
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.269 layers: N/A device: 0 type: integrated-gpu
name: Intel Graphics (ADL GT2) driver: mesa intel v: 23.1.9-manjaro1.1
device-ID: 8086:46a8 surfaces: xcb,xlib
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Alder Lake PCH-P High Definition Audio
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl
alternate: snd_hda_intel,snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl bus-ID: 00:1f.3
chip-ID: 8086:51c8 class-ID: 0401
API: ALSA v: k6.5.13-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.0.0 status: off with: pipewire-media-session
status: active tools: pw-cli
Server-3: PulseAudio v: 16.1 status: active with: pulseaudio-alsa
type: plugin tools: pacat,pactl
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: rtw_8821ce v: N/A modules: rtw88_8821ce pcie:
gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 01:00.0
chip-ID: 10ec:c821 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: global broadcast: <filter>
IF-ID-1: crc state: down mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter>
IF-ID-2: virbr0 state: down mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter>
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 1.1
speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-10:3 chip-ID: 0bda:b00e
class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 4.2
lmp-v: 8 status: discoverable: no pairing: no class-ID: 7c010c
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 953.87 GiB used: 239.35 GiB (25.1%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 model: SaiChi G800 NVME 1TB
size: 953.87 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s
lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: T1103L0L temp: 39.9 C
scheme: GPT
Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 60.54 GiB size: 59.28 GiB (97.93%) used: 11.87 GiB (20.0%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2 label: N/A
uuid: d53af080-83ee-49f2-8eeb-8d5b99af207b
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 512 MiB size: 511 MiB (99.80%)
used: 6.4 MiB (1.3%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 label: N/A
uuid: 6E71-9D6B
ID-3: /home raw-size: 863.03 GiB size: 848.41 GiB (98.31%)
used: 227.47 GiB (26.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4
label: N/A uuid: 9eaa1af0-344a-45da-a83e-2a67133470e9
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: yes
compressor: zstd max-pool: 20%
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 29.8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3 label: N/A
uuid: 9aaf043e-303e-4532-9d02-46b5e7c1adc8
Unmounted:
Message: No unmounted partitions found.
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 12 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 1-3:2 info: Luxvisions Innotech HP TrueVision HD Camera
type: video driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 power: 500mA
chip-ID: 30c9:0064 class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
Device-2: 1-10:3 info: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: bluetooth
driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s) lanes: 1
mode: 1.1 power: 500mA chip-ID: 0bda:b00e class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1
speed: 10 Gb/s (1.16 GiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-2x1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 35.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Processes: 366 Uptime: 1d 22h 23m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 254
default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 13.2.1 clang: 16.0.6
Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1286 libs: 341 tools: pamac pm: flatpak pkgs: 0
Shell: Zsh v: 5.9 running-in: tmux: inxi: 3.3.31
Anybody could help?
That could indicate that the issue is with your laptop.
I notice you’re using kernel 6.5 which has now reached EOL; you should remove that and update to either kernel 6.6 or 6.1 (LTS). It’s also possible that updating the kernel might automagically solve your issue, see Manjaro Kernels.
Beyond that, I’m afraid I can’t offer any further help as I don’t use bluetooth; therefore, there is no common frame of reference.
Good luck.
Do you have two Bluetooth?
If so, what if you unplug the external one and pairing again with the onboard Bluetooth
more config info
Hi terashy,
Thank you for your response,
I don’t have an external Bluetooth module, it’s just the builtin one
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I have some updates,
I’ve redirected the bluetooth device to a windows virtual machine and tried to connect to my handsfree that I couldn’t connect to directly through manjaro, and it’s successfully recognised and connected,
So it’s a matter with manjaro, not the laptop,
I also tried multiple versions of Linux kernels, 6.1, 6.6, and 5.15 but it’s not recognized, could somebody direct me on how to find the suitable kernel module for my HP laptop bluetooth chip?
Thank you all for your help
Maybe Firmware Manager can help.
sudo pacman -Syu firmware-manager
… Do you have a Friend, family where you could borrow a similar earphone to test with?
And also try to reset your tws?
Mind has to keep turn on for more than 5 second, some are over 15 second
therefor, you have to check your tws manual.
This is not the way to install packages.
sudo pacman -Syu firmware-manager
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done
Cheers
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have been wondering - quoting from the topic title
Bluetooth doesn’t recognize all my tws devices
What is a tws device?
And what impact would such a device have on the bluetootd protocol?
Hi @terashy88,
I’d like to thank you so much for your response,
I really would like to say that this command solved the issue,
But I had a very strange behavior, I had this command run, then searched for my tws, and … It was found successfully, clicked connect and actually got connected, but no sound is working!!!
I thought a reboot would solve the problem, but after rebooting, I got the adapter not found !!!
I faced that problem before, and a poweroff then start my laptop solved that and I got the adapter attached again 
But can’t connect to my previously identified tws
So forgot it and searched for it again, and couldn’t find it 
Dears,
I have an update,
After switching to kernel version 5.15, and ran the following command:
sudo pacman -Syu firmware-manager
The Bluetooth detected my TWS and I started hearing voice from it,
But it still has some glitches or cutting offs and it’s not really usable especially during meetings, and I found the following errors flooding:
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Output ommitted
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Dec 28 12:50:18 xxxx kernel: rtw_8821ce 0000:01:00.0: failed to send h2c command
Dec 28 12:50:18 xxxx kernel: rtw_8821ce 0000:01:00.0: firmware failed to leave lps state
Dec 28 12:50:18 xxxx kernel: rtw_8821ce 0000:01:00.0: failed to send h2c command
Dec 28 12:50:18 xxxx kernel: rtw_8821ce 0000:01:00.0: failed to send h2c command
Dec 28 12:50:18 xxxx kernel: rtw_8821ce 0000:01:00.0: failed to send h2c command
Dec 28 12:50:18 xxxx kernel: rtw_8821ce 0000:01:00.0: failed to send h2c command
Dec 28 12:50:18 xxxx kernel: rtw_8821ce 0000:01:00.0: failed to send h2c command
Dec 28 12:50:19 xxxx kernel: rtw_8821ce 0000:01:00.0: failed to send h2c command
Dec 28 12:50:19 xxxx kernel: rtw_8821ce 0000:01:00.0: failed to send h2c command
Dec 28 12:50:19 xxxx kernel: rtw_8821ce 0000:01:00.0: failed to send h2c command
Dec 28 12:50:20 xxxx kernel: rtw_8821ce 0000:01:00.0: failed to send h2c command
Dec 28 12:50:20 xxxx kernel: rtw_8821ce 0000:01:00.0: failed to send h2c command
Dec 28 12:50:20 xxxx kernel: rtw_8821ce 0000:01:00.0: firmware failed to leave lps state
....
Output ommitted
....
Appreciate your recommendations
Then i suggest strongly to install and test : 6.1(LTS), 6.6(LTS) 6.7(new) (and remove 6.5(EOL))
→ Stay where it works best