I recently l loaded Linux on my Macbook 2015. It runs pretty smoothly on this machine, but there is one major issue. Bluetooth doesn't work. I installed Blueman already, but opening the App does not do anything to the machine. Any help is appreciated here.
Can you please post the output of
dmesg | grep -i blue
Ensure bluez is installed
sudo apt install --reinstall bluez
re-installed bluez, nothing.
$ dmesg | grep -i blue
[ 5.810722] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.22
[ 5.814416] NET: Registered PF_BLUETOOTH protocol family
[ 5.814420] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 5.814425] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 5.814429] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 5.814436] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[ 6.002969] Bluetooth: HCI UART driver ver 2.3
[ 6.002976] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol H4 registered
[ 6.002979] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol BCSP registered
[ 6.012061] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol LL registered
[ 6.012067] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol ATH3K registered
[ 6.012087] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol Three-wire (H5) registered
[ 6.012123] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol Intel registered
[ 6.012180] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol Broadcom registered
[ 6.012195] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol QCA registered
[ 6.012197] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol AG6XX registered
[ 6.012212] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol Marvell registered
[ 39.677236] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[ 39.677242] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[ 39.677249] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
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Run each separately as a new line in terminal:
sudo systemctl enable bluetooth.service
sudo systemctl start bluetooth.service
no fix quite yet sadly. The bluetooth switch toggle in settings is greyed out with the following message displayed: "no bluetooth found, plug in a dongle to use"
Terminal output for
lsusb
and also
sudo lshw -C network
Bus 002 Device 001: ID ***** Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
-network
description: Wireless interface
product: BCM4350 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
logical name: wlp1s0
version: 05
serial: a8:66:7f:1e:15:cb
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=brcmfmac driverversion=7.35.180.133 firmware=01-c45b39d6 ip=***** latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
resources: irq:52 memory:c1400000-c1407fff memory:c1000000-c13fffff
It looks like this driver is needed:
Installation instructions:
git clone https://github.com/leifliddy/macbook12-bluetooth-driver.git
cd macbook12-bluetooth-driver/
sudo ./install.bluetooth.sh
Driver installed, but still no luck here
Go ahead and try these, now:
sudo systemctl enable bluetooth.service
sudo systemctl start bluetooth.service
Done, no change quite yet
-sigh-
Macbooks...
I will try searching them thar interwebs...
I'm surprised because I know this one is from the era when Apple worked with Intel for standard-ish hardware. I thought for sure it would be plug-and-play.
I appreciate all the effort you are going through to help me with this.
This may seem silly, but try:
sudo rmmod btusb
sudo modprobe btusb
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