I've been trying to get the issue solved elsewhere but nothing worked out, installed all possible packages but still nothing. I got a Acer Aspire V13, just installed Ubuntu 15.04, bluetooth icon is displayed but neither recognizes nor is recognized anywhere. I've also tried with a different bluetooth manager and still nothing. Needless to say, I'm quite of a newbie to Ubuntu.
Output of lslsb:
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04ca:300d Lite-On Technology Corp. Atheros AR3012 BluetoothThanks a lot in advance!
32 Answers
Your bluetooth chip is not supported by the kernel yet.
Here is the Bug report. You can vote there that the bug affects you too. There is a temporary solution there. But it is too technical for a common user.
I sent a few patches upstream to add some of these devices, which have been applied. But in this case also some firmware should be added. I wrote to kernel maintainers, but it will take some time to fix it.
sudo apt-get install linux-firmware linux-headers-generic build-essential
wget
tar xpvf bluetooth-3.19.tar.gz
cd bluetooth
cp /boot/config-$(uname -r) .config
cp /usr/src/linux-headers-$(uname -r)/Module.symvers Module.symvers
make -C /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build M=$PWD modules
sudo cp btusb.ko /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/bluetooth/
sudo cp ath3k.ko /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/bluetooth/And see if it works after a reboot, if it doesn't show the results of dmesg | grep -i firmware and dmesg | grep -i bluetooth
