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From: Pat Erley <pat-lkml@erley.org>
To: Tomas Pospisek <tpo2@sourcepole.ch>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: unable to unblock Bluetooth
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 14:57:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51F569A6.5090800@erley.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51F3CEF7.4030200@sourcepole.ch>

On 07/27/2013 09:45 AM, Tomas Pospisek wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am not able to unblock Bluetooth:
>
> # rfkill unblock all
> # rfkill list 4
> 4: hp-bluetooth: Bluetooth
>           Soft blocked: yes
>           Hard blocked: no
>
> The Bluetooth layer remains "Soft blocked".
>
> My system looks like this:
>
> - Linux: 3.11-rc1
> - Userspace: Debian wheezy
> - rfkill: 0.5
> - HW: HP dv7 6130ez
> - Bluetooth probably provided by:
>    # lspci
>    ...
>    0d:00.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT5390
>   [802.11 b/g/n 1T1R G-band PCI Express Single Chip]
>
> Kernel logs show no trace of a problem:
>
>    Bluetooth: Core ver 2.16
>    Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
>    Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
>    Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
>    Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
>    Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
>    Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
>    Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11
>    Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
>    Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
>    Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
>
> I had to provide some firware in order for the Bluetooth device to show
> up in rfkill. I copied those firmware blobs over from Debian's
> "firmware-ralink" package. It must be one of these:
>
> rt2661.bin
> rtl_nic
> rtl_nic/rtl8168f-1.fw
> rtl_nic/rtl8168e-1.fw
> rtl_nic/rtl8168f-2.fw
> rtl_nic/rtl8168e-3.fw
> rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw
> rtl_nic/rtl8168e-2.fw
> rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw
> rtl_nic/rtl8168d-1.fw
> RTL8192SU
> RTL8192SU/rtl8192sfw.bin
> rt2561.bin
> rt2870.bin
> rt2860.bin
> rt73.bin
> rt3070.bin
> rtlwifi
> rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw.bin
> rtlwifi/rtl8192cfwU.bin
> rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin
> rtlwifi/rtl8192cfwU_B.bin
> rtlwifi/rtl8192sefw.bin
> rtlwifi/rtl8192defw.bin
> rtlwifi/rtl8712u.bin
> rt3071.bin
> rt3090.bin
> rt2561s.bin
> RTL8192E
> RTL8192E/main.img
> RTL8192E/boot.img
> RTL8192E/data.img
>
> Additional possibly useful info:
>
>    # lsmod |grep blue
>    bluetooth             169854  10 bnep,rfcomm
>    rfkill                 19242  6 cfg80211,hp_wmi,bluetooth
>    crc16                  12343  2 ext4,bluetooth
>
> What can I do to unblock the Bluetooth?
>
> Thank you,
> *t

lsusb might be useful here too.  hp_wmi hooked into rfkill might mean 
that hp-wmi is setting that soft block.  Perhaps you have a keyboard 
combo to unblock it?

Pat Erley


  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-28 19:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-27 13:45 unable to unblock Bluetooth Tomas Pospisek
2013-07-28 18:57 ` Pat Erley [this message]
2013-07-28 21:01   ` Tomas Pospisek

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