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DISCUSSION Tomas Pospisek 2 participants 3 messages Jul 27, 2013 – Jul 28, 2013

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Tomas Pospisek

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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

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Quoted 82 lines · Tomas Pospisek

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
Quoted 4 lines

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

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Am 28.07.2013 20:57, schrieb Pat Erley:

Quoted 83 lines · Tomas Pospisek
Quoted 82 lines

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
Quoted 5 lines
Quoted 1 line

What can I do to unblock the Bluetooth?

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?

Thanks Pat, there's only the "lighthouse" button, that I'm interpreting as wifi on/off button. Other than that there doesn't seem to be any "bluetooth" or related button.

As for:

# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 138a:0018 Validity Sensors, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 064e:e258 Suyin Corp.

"Validity Sensors" seems to be the fingerprint reader and "Suyin Corp." seems to be the laptop camera.

I wrote Matthew Garrett the hp_wmi author, but haven heard back. I'm not sure, maybe I shouldn't contact him directly or maybe he's just busy or on holidays currently.

If anybody can point out to me what direction to take from here I'd be very glad.

Thanks,
*t
*t