Using latest fedora 41 with Plasma Mobile, I can’t get Bluetooth to work. Nothing shows up running bluetoothctl list. It’s an intel wireless 7265, which shows up as a network controller under lspci, but the bluetooth part doesnt. hciconfig returns nothing.

Steps I’ve taken:

sudo modprobe bluetooth

sudo dnf install bluez bluez-utils

sudo systemctl start bluetooth

I’m having deja vu where I followed all these steps before, but somehow I’m stuck here. Thank you for any help.

  • Strit
    4•11 months ago

    Make sure that the driver for the module is enabled in the kernel. dmesg | grep bluetooth should reveal something there.

    Also, make sure the module is not blocked in rfkill.

    • @potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fishOP
      2•11 months ago

      dmesg | grep -i bluetooth says this after loading bluetooth with modprobe:

      Bluetooth: Core ver 2.22

NET: Registered PF_BLUETOOTH protocol family

Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized

Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized

Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized

Bluetooth: SC0 socket later initialized

      Rfkill only lists my wlan device which is unlocked.

      • Strit
        2•11 months ago

        Does not look like the driver is enabled in the kernel you are running then. :(

      • @anon5621@lemmy.ml
        1•11 months ago

        Usual plasma using bluedevil as frontend for Bluetooth does it installed? And what log saying in Bluetooth service sudo systemctl status bluetooth?

        • @potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fishOP
          1•11 months ago

          Plasma mobile is probably different, I only see bluetoothctl and bluemoon from bluez-utils. When I run bluetoothctl power on it says No default controller available. systemctl status bluetooth initially returns inactive (dead) with no logs, and when I start it it gives the log:

          Jan 20 16:24:38 solstice systemd[1]: bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service was skipped because of an unmet condition check (ConditionPathIsDirectory=/sys/class/bluetooth).

          This error is fixed by running modprobe bluetooth as root. I can start bluetoothctl, and it runs successfully. The systemd logs return:

          Jan 20 16:25:29 solstice bluetoothd[2481]: src/plugin.c:init_plugin() System does not support bap plugin
Jan 20 16:25:29 solstice bluetoothd[2481]: src/plugin.c:init_plugin() System does not support bass plugin
Jan 20 16:25:29 solstice bluetoothd[2481]: src/plugin.c:init_plugin() System does not support mcp plugin
Jan 20 16:25:29 solstice bluetoothd[2481]: src/plugin.c:init_plugin() System does not support vcp plugin

          Another lemmier suggested that my system just doesn’t have the right kernel. This is unfortunate but may be true at this point.