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ASUS Laptop: Bluetooth: hci0: Reading Intel device address failed (-16)

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I'm using an ASUS ZenBook 14 (UX3405CA) with an Intel WiFi 7 card. A couple weeks ago, I was running Arch and bluetoothctl worked, but graphical controls like blueman would show that bluetooth was disabled. Recently, I migrated to the PopOS 24.04 alpha since I wanted to test out COSMIC and also have a bit more stable OS. Now, regardless of whether I use COSMIC or a stable session like Gnome, bluetooth is completely borked. GUI bluetooth managers are actually worse now (blueman crashes when I try to enable Bluetooth), and bluetoothctl doesn't work anymore. bluetoothctl list yields no output. lsusb does not list any Bluetooth adapters. inxi -bE:
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel driver: btusb type: USB
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 4 state: down
    bt-service: enabled,running rfk-block: hardware: no software: no
    address: 00:00:00:00:00:00
hciconfig:
hci0:	Type: Primary  Bus: USB
	BD Address: 00:00:00:00:00:00  ACL MTU: 0:0  SCO MTU: 0:0
	DOWN
	RX bytes:221 acl:0 sco:0 events:6 errors:0
	TX bytes:28 acl:0 sco:0 commands:6 errors:0
Errors from journalctl -b:
Aug 04 23:59:24 arkel-mars kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: DSM reset method type: 0x00
Aug 04 23:59:24 arkel-mars kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Reading Intel device address failed (-16)
Aug 04 23:59:24 arkel-mars kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Found device firmware: intel/ibt-0093-0291.sfi
Aug 04 23:59:24 arkel-mars kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Boot Address: 0x100800
Aug 04 23:59:24 arkel-mars kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Firmware Version: 149-7.25
Aug 04 23:59:24 arkel-mars kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Firmware already loaded
Aug 04 23:59:24 arkel-mars kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Setting Intel event mask failed (-16)
Aug 04 23:59:24 arkel-mars kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Reading supported features failed (-16)
Aug 04 23:59:24 arkel-mars kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Error reading debug features
Aug 04 23:59:24 arkel-mars kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Fseq status: Success (0x00)
Aug 04 23:59:24 arkel-mars kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Fseq executed: 00.00.04.196
Aug 04 23:59:24 arkel-mars kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Fseq BT Top: 00.00.04.195
Aug 04 23:59:24 arkel-mars kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Opcode 0x0c03 failed: -16
Asked by Alex Kelley (1 rep)
Aug 5, 2025, 05:27 AM