Bluetooth not functioning Mageia 4

[doktor5000]

I was a Mandriva user for years, and recently ditched Mint to go to Mageia. So far so good, but I can't get the Bluetooth card to work.

Dell Inspiron 1526, Mageia 4, MATE, 4GB RAM, Broadcom (BCM2045? 46? see below) bluetooth card that worked fine under Mint.

I have been using Linux for quite a while, and can usually fix most things. This one has got me though. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
This is my first post to the mageia forums, so if I screwed it up (formatting), I'm sorry.

a few items that could be telling:

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    # lsusb
    Bus 003 Device 004: ID 413c:8126 Dell Computer Corp. Wireless 355 Bluetooth
    Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0a5c:4500 Broadcom Corp. BCM2046B1 USB 2.0 Hub (part of BCM2046 Bluetooth)

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    # systemctl status bluetooth.service dbus-org.bluez.service
    bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
       Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled)
       Active: active (running) since Wed 2014-08-06 12:23:52 CDT; 14min ago
         Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
     Main PID: 4209 (bluetoothd)
       Status: "Running"
       CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service
               └─4209 /usr/libexec/bluetooth/bluetoothd

    Aug 06 12:23:52 mageinspiron systemd[1]: Starting Bluetooth service...
    Aug 06 12:23:52 mageinspiron systemd[1]: Started Bluetooth service.
    Aug 06 12:23:52 mageinspiron bluetoothd[4209]: Bluetooth daemon 5.11
    Aug 06 12:23:52 mageinspiron bluetoothd[4209]: Starting SDP server
    Aug 06 12:23:52 mageinspiron bluetoothd[4209]: Bluetooth management interface 1.3 initialized
    Aug 06 12:23:52 mageinspiron bluetoothd[4209]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.41 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource
    Aug 06 12:23:52 mageinspiron bluetoothd[4209]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.41 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink


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    # lspcidrake -v | grep -i blue
    btusb           : Broadcom Corp|BCM2045 [Wireless|Radio Frequency|Bluetooth] (vendor:413c device:8126)

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    # rfkill list
    0: hci0: Bluetooth
       Soft blocked: no
       Hard blocked: no
    1: phy0: Wireless LAN
       Soft blocked: no
       Hard blocked: no

[doktor5000]

Please show the output of the following commands as root

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rpm -qa | grep blue | sort
hciconfig hci0 reset
hciconfig -a

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bluetoothctl

(this one starts a separate shell where you enter the next two commands)

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list
show

[paddygav]

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rpm -qa | grep blue | sort
bluefish-2.2.4-2.mga4
bluez-5.11-1.mga4
bluez-firmware-1.2-10.mga4.nonfree
bluez-hid2hci-5.11-1.mga4
gnome-bluetooth-3.10.0-3.mga4
lib64bluez3-5.11-1.mga4
lib64gnome-bluetooth-applet0-3.10.0-3.mga4
lib64gnome-bluetooth12-3.10.0-3.mga4
lib64mate-bluetooth-gir1.0-1.6.0-3.mga4
lib64mate-bluetooth8-1.6.0-3.mga4
libgnome-bluetooth12-3.10.0-3.mga4
libmate-bluetooth8-1.6.0-3.mga4
mate-bluetooth-1.6.0-3.mga4
mate-file-manager-sendto-bluetooth-1.6.0-3.mga4
pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-5.0-0.20131220.1.mga4


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hciconfig -a
hci0:   Type: BR/EDR  Bus: USB
   BD Address: 00:1F:E1:DC:BC:DD  ACL MTU: 1017:8  SCO MTU: 64:8
   UP RUNNING PSCAN
   RX bytes:1956 acl:0 sco:0 events:84 errors:0
   TX bytes:1099 acl:0 sco:0 commands:84 errors:0
   Features: 0xff 0xff 0x8f 0xfe 0x9b 0xf9 0x00 0x80
   Packet type: DM1 DM3 DM5 DH1 DH3 DH5 HV1 HV2 HV3
   Link policy: RSWITCH HOLD SNIFF PARK
   Link mode: SLAVE ACCEPT
   Name: 'mageinspiron'
   Class: 0x0c010c
   Service Classes: Rendering, Capturing
   Device Class: Computer, Laptop
   HCI Version: 2.0 (0x3)  Revision: 0x216f
   LMP Version: 2.0 (0x3)  Subversion: 0x41d8
   Manufacturer: Broadcom Corporation (15)


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[NEW] Controller 00:1F:E1:DC:BC:DD mageinspiron [default]
[bluetooth]
[list]      Controller 00:1F:E1:DC:BC:DD mageinspiron [default]
[show]   Controller 00:1F:E1:DC:BC:DD
   Name: mageinspiron
   Alias: mageinspiron
   Class: 0x0c010c
   Powered: yes
   Discoverable: no
   Pairable: yes
   UUID: PnP Information           (00001200-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
   UUID: Generic Access Profile    (00001800-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
   UUID: Generic Attribute Profile (00001801-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
   UUID: A/V Remote Control        (0000110e-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
   UUID: A/V Remote Control Target (0000110c-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
   UUID: Audio Source              (0000110a-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
   UUID: Audio Sink                (0000110b-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
   Modalias: usb:v1D6Bp0246d050B
   Discovering: no


[doktor5000]

Well, the card is functional as you can see from the output. What is the problem with it, what are you actually trying to do via bluetooth?

[paddygav]

I am wanting to make it work from the GUI.

the BT icon has a red & white X in the lower corner.
when I hover over the BT icon in the top panel, it reports "Disabled".
when i actually click on the icon, it reports "bluetooth:on"
if I select preferences from that menu, the bluetooth preferences report that bluetooth is disabled, and there is a large button that reads "turn on bluetooth"

I click, but nothing happens.

if I wanted to try connecting something from a shell, what would I use? bluetoothctl?

[paddygav]

I realized that I hadn't really answered the question properly.
I mostly use bluetooth for mice. Sometimes keyboards and very rarely for audio.

I did try bluetoothctl from the terminal:

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# bluetoothctl
[NEW] Controller 00:1F:E1:DC:BC:DD localhost [default]
[bluetooth]# scan
Missing on/off argument
[bluetooth]# scan on
Failed to start discovery: org.bluez.Error.NotReady
[bluetooth]#


[doktor5000]

Apologies, totally missed that you're using MATE ... if I remember correctly, MATE 1.6 is not compatible with latest bluez. It requires obexftp which is not present anymore with bluez5. That why bluetooth is working, but you cannot do anything with it in the applet. Check https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-bl ... /issues/17 for the upstream bugreport.

You basically have three choices:
- use another bluetooth applet but not the one from MATE, seems only option would be gnome-bluetooth
- use another desktop environment
- use "unofficial" packages provided by the Mageia MATE packager from http://tarakbumba.mageia.org.pl/
Feel free to ask tarakbumba about that in viewtopic.php?f=10&t=4867

[tarakbumba]

Sorry for the very late answer. As mentioned in Mageia 4 Errata Mate does not provide bluetooth interface due to Bluez5 migration. Mate developers dropped mate-bluetooth. You can try my unofficial Blueman, which is supported and recommended by Mate developers, at http://tarakbumba.mageia.org.pl but it is very unstable and not fully functional. I suppose if blueman becomes fully functional with bluez5 than we can provide a functional Blueman package *after* Mga 5 released through backports.

[tarazed]

In the meantime you might try KDE's BlueDevil. Much to my surprise I was able to invoke it under Mate via the KDE settings gui which can be found in the Mate menus. It copies to the Mate panel OK.
I just paired my usb bluetooth transmitter with a Bose Soundlink speaker and played a track via mplayer.

[tarazed]

Oops. That was actually in Cauldron. Will test that out on Mageia 4.

[tarazed]

Aye, it works fine for Mageia 4 also.