Sabado, Agosto 19, 2017

Solving Bluetooth Device Problem on Ubuntu 17.04

I have an Asus SonicMaster laptop that runs the new Ubuntu 17.04 Zesty Zapus and everything is running great except that bluetooth. I want to enjoy wireless music you know. The bluetooth icon shows in the panel bar but does nothing.

Running "lshw" on the terminal got me started. I looked up the lines and found an unclaimed hardware device which is my bluetooth RALINK RT3290. Started searching from the forums and one pointed to install rtbth-dkms driver from launchpad.

So i obeyed and added blaze repo (https://launchpad.net/~blaze/+archive/ubuntu/rtbth-dkms)


//this two lines will add the blaze rtbth-dkms repository 
//on the system and update it along the way
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:blaze/rtbth-dkms
sudo apt-get update


Next step is to install it:


//install bluetooth driver
sudo apt-get install rtbth-dkms


Next step is to reboot your laptop and start the bluetooth once you got in. The instructions are listed here.

# Init
sudo modprobe rtbth
sudo rfkill unblock bluetooth
hcitool dev # check

# Switch off
sudo rfkill block bluetooth

# Switch on
sudo rfkill unblock bluetooth

# Shutdown
sudo pkill -2 rtbt
sudo rmmod rtbth


Once done your bluetooth device will be recognized and claimed by the driver.
Then I paired up my little bluetooth speaker and happily enjoying wireless music! Thanks to blaze for the bluetooth repo.








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