I recently purchased an Acer AL15-41 laptop and installed linux mint 22.1 on it. I am having some difficulty getting bluetooth working on it. The bluetooth scan shows no nearby devices,
Requesting for a second set of eyes to look at the issue.
https://linux-hardware.org/?probe=424249890f
The BT chipset is IMC Networks Bluetooth Radio
Searching online I see one post where the user gave up on getting BT working https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/fedora-40-kde-bluetooth-turns-on-but-wont-detect-any-devices/118079/26
and another where the user was able to get it working with
modprobe ath9k btcoex_enable=1
I tried modprobe and restarting it did not help. https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/imc-bluetooth-drivers-issue/42627/4
dmesg log is
dmesg|grep -i bluetooth ─╯
[ 3.141223] usb 3-3: Product: Bluetooth Radio
[ 4.706956] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.22
[ 4.706984] NET: Registered PF_BLUETOOTH protocol family
[ 4.706986] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 4.706990] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 4.706993] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 4.706998] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[ 6.545709] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[ 6.545716] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[ 6.545721] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
[ 6.548651] Bluetooth: MGMT ver 1.22
[ 10.889309] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[ 10.889319] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[ 10.889326] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11
journalctrl |grep -i bluetooth
has some interesting results
Mar 15 08:36:48 dyumnin (uetoothd): bluetooth.service: ConfigurationDirectory 'bluetooth' already exists but the mode is different. (File system: 755 ConfigurationDirectoryMode: 555)
...
Mar 15 08:40:25 dyumnin bluetoothd: Endpoint unregistered: sender=:1.49 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/opus_05_duplex
Mar 15 08:40:25 dyumnin dbus-daemon: [system] Rejected send message, 0 matched rules; type="error", sender=":1.49" (uid=1000 pid=1358 comm="/usr/bin/wireplumber" label="unconfined") interface="(unset)" mem>
Mar 15 08:40:25 dyumnin dbus-daemon: [system] Rejected send message, 0 matched rules; type="error", sender=":1.49" (uid=1000 pid=1358 comm="/usr/bin/wireplumber" label="unconfined") interface="(unset)" mem>
Mar 15 08:40:25 dyumnin dbus-daemon: [system] Rejected send message, 0 matched rules; type="error", sender=":1.49" (uid=1000 pid=1358 comm="/usr/bin/wireplumber" label="unconfined") interface="(unset)" mem>
Mar 15 08:40:25 dyumnin dbus-daemon: [system] Rejected send message, 0 matched rules; type="error", sender=":1.49" (uid=1000 pid=1358 comm="/usr/bin/wireplumber" label="unconfined") interface="(unset)" mem>
Mar 15 08:40:25 dyumnin dbus-daemon: [system] Rejected send message, 0 matched rules; type="error", sender=":1.49" (uid=1000 pid=1358 comm="/usr/bin/wireplumber" label="unconfined") interface="(unset)" mem>
Mar 15 08:40:25 dyumnin dbus-daemon: [system] Rejected send message, 0 matched rules; type="error", sender=":1.49" (uid=1000 pid=1358 comm="/usr/bin/wireplumber" label="unconfined") interface="(unset)" mem>
Mar 15 08:40:25 dyumnin dbus-daemon: [system] Rejected send message, 0 matched rules; type="error", sender=":1.49" (uid=1000 pid=1358 comm="/usr/bin/wireplumber" label="unconfined") interface="(unset)" mem>
Mar 15 08:40:25 dyumnin dbus-daemon: [system] Rejected send message, 0 matched rules; type="error", sender=":1.49" (uid=1000 pid=1358 comm="/usr/bin/wireplumber" label="unconfined") interface="(unset)" mem>
Mar 15 08:40:25 dyumnin dbus-daemon: [system] Rejected send message, 0 matched rules; type="error", sender=":1.49" (uid=1000 pid=1358 comm="/usr/bin/wireplumber" label="unconfined") interface="(unset)" mem>
Mar 15 08:40:25 dyumnin dbus-daemon: [system] Rejected send message, 0 matched rules; type="error", sender=":1.49" (uid=1000 pid=1358 comm="/usr/bin/wireplumber" label="unconfined") interface="(unset)" mem>
Mar 15 08:40:25 dyumnin dbus-daemon: [system] Rejected send message, 0 matched rules; type="error", sender=":1.49" (uid=1000 pid=1358 comm="/usr/bin/wireplumber" label="unconfined") interface="(unset)" mem>
Mar 15 08:40:25 dyumnin dbus-daemon: [system] Rejected send message, 0 matched rules; type="error", sender=":1.49" (uid=1000 pid=1358 comm="/usr/bin/wireplumber" label="unconfined") interface="(unset)" mem>
Mar 15 08:40:25 dyumnin dbus-daemon: [system] Rejected send message, 0 matched rules; type="error", sender=":1.49" (uid=1000 pid=1358 comm="/usr/bin/wireplumber" label="unconfined") interface="(unset)" mem>
Mar 15 08:40:25 dyumnin dbus-daemon: [system] Rejected send message, 0 matched rules; type="error", sender=":1.49" (uid=1000 pid=1358 comm="/usr/bin/wireplumber" label="unconfined") interface="(unset)" mem>
Mar 15 08:40:25 dyumnin dbus-daemon: [system] Rejected send message, 0 matched rules; type="error", sender=":1.49" (uid=1000 pid=1358 comm="/usr/bin/wireplumber" label="unconfined") interface="(unset)" mem>
Mar 15 08:40:25 dyumnin dbus-daemon: [system] Rejected send message, 0 matched rules; type="error", sender=":1.49" (uid=1000 pid=1358 comm="/usr/bin/wireplumber" label="unconfined") interface="(unset)" mem>
Mar 15 08:40:25 dyumnin dbus-daemon: [system] Rejected send message, 0 matched rules; type="error", sender=":1.49" (uid=1000 pid=1358 comm="/usr/bin/wireplumber" label="unconfined") interface="(unset)" mem>
Mar 15 08:40:25 dyumnin dbus-daemon: [system] Rejected send message, 0 matched rules; type="error", sender=":1.49" (uid=1000 pid=1358 comm="/usr/bin/wireplumber" label="unconfined") interface="(unset)" mem>
Mar 15 08:40:25 dyumnin dbus-daemon: [system] Rejected send message, 0 matched rules; type="error", sender=":1.49" (uid=1000 pid=1358 comm="/usr/bin/wireplumber" label="unconfined") interface="(unset)" mem>
Mar 15 08:40:25 dyumnin bluetoothd: Battery Provider Manager destroyed
Mar 15 08:40:25 dyumnin systemd: Stopped target bluetooth.target - Bluetooth Support.
Mar 15 08:40:26 dyumnin systemd: Reached target bluetooth.target - Bluetooth Support.
Mar 15 08:40:26 dyumnin systemd: Reached target bluetooth.target - Bluetooth.
Mar 15 08:40:26 dyumnin kernel: Bluetooth: MGMT ver 1.22
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Mar 18, 2025, 05:48 AM
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