6mo ago

Bluetooth issues

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.

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Make sure that the driver for the module is built into the kernel. dmesg | grep bluetooth should reveal something there.
Also, make sure the module is not blocked in rfkill.
- 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.
  
  Does not look like the driver is enabled in the kernel you are running then. :(
Make sure you have Bluetooth enabled in your firmware
- By the check, I meant that I'd already had it enabled and checked that.
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I cannot into computers, but draining the capacitors before rebooting has fixed this issue for me in the past. Not sure if this is even possible on your device given you're running Plasma Mobile

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