Trouble Connecting Bluetooth on Dell Insipiron 1545

boygenuis · 04-03-2019, 03:06 PM

I have a leftover Inspiron 1545 that, until last week, had Ubuntu 18.04 on it and where Bluetooth worked. I'm currently running Linux bodhi 4.9.0-6-686 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.88-1+deb9u1 (2018-05-07). When I run

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sudo lsusb | grep Bluetooth

I get the return

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Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0a5c:4500 Broadcom Corp. BCM2046B1 USB 2.0 Hub (part of BCM2046 Bluetooth)

I've installed bluez via

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sudo apt install bluez

and I can start Bluetooth and get the icon to show in the system tray via

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sudo systemctl start bluetooth

but when I run

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hcitool dev

I don't get any listed devices. I cannot setup new devices as I get error messages that no adapters are found.

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sudo apt install bluez-firmware firmware-broadcom

returns error messages that Bodhi was unable to locate the packages bluez-firmware and firmware-broadcom. Can someone assist in what else I'm missing to be able to use Bluetooth again on my laptop? Thank you.

the_waiter · 04-04-2019, 11:37 AM

Hello

Try to install blueman package for bt gui. It used to work fine here...at least finding bt devices

Stefan

the_waiter · 04-04-2019, 11:51 AM

Hmm, No I see no devices as well. Some troubles seen after this command:
dmesg | grep -i blue

Let me have some time to look closely

S