Bluetooth adapter not available [SOLVED]

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Bluetooth adapter not available [SOLVED]

Post#1 by AbhayF18 » 25 Nov 2020, 06:27

Here is my dmesg output
dmesg | grep Bluetooth
[ 11.893110] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.22
[ 11.893147] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 11.893155] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 11.893159] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 11.893165] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[ 12.329796] Bluetooth: Patch file not found ar3k/AthrBT_0x31010000.dfu
[ 12.329797] Bluetooth: Loading patch file failed
[ 15.693143] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[ 15.693147] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[ 15.693156] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized

I have installed bluez, bluez-firmware and blueman with getpkg. But my BlueTooth adapter is not showing
now when I click on the BlueTooth icon
this comes
https://ibb.co/BqqXS3t

I have that .dfu file but I don't know how to install it
Please help me.

I moved from Ubuntu 20.04 to Porteus Linux. Since then I'm loving this.

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Post#2 by ncmprhnsbl » 25 Nov 2020, 08:52

welcome :) ,
AbhayF18 wrote:
25 Nov 2020, 06:27
I have installed bluez, bluez-firmware and blueman with getpkg.
you're using Porteus v5 rc2 KDE, right? bluez is already in core, and kde has it's own client: bluedevil, so i don't think adding blueman will help.. bluez-firmware couldn't hurt i suppose..
i don't know why the plugin error talks about qt 5.15.. this kde was built with qt 5.14 ..
looks like there's something not quite right with kde there..
AbhayF18 wrote:
25 Nov 2020, 06:27
I have that .dfu file but I don't know how to install it
device firmware update? for what?

the other thing is: the bluetooth daemon must be started:
easiest way: use bluetooth cheatcode at boot (on the APPEND line of /boot/syslinux/porteus.cfg )
next easiest: open porteus settings centre> system(second icon at top) > bluetooth settings
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Bluetooth adapter not available

Post#3 by AbhayF18 » 25 Nov 2020, 17:37

I have used the cheat code but still, it shows Bluetooth adapter not available.
I also opened the Porteus settings center but all in vain.

I also did a fresh boot of Porteus v5 rc1 and the same happened in that as well.

I was talking about this file AthrBT_0x31010000.dfu. This patch file was not found as shown in the dmesg output. In one of the posts about Bluetooth not working, I saw this to install this dfu file which was in Gentoo forums. I don't know how to fix this patch.
This is the post.
[SOLVED] Problem bluetooth

This is the only problem that I'm facing.
One more question
Is USM removed in Porteus v5 rc2 ?

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Bluetooth adapter not available

Post#4 by Ed_P » 25 Nov 2020, 18:48

AbhayF18 wrote:
25 Nov 2020, 17:37
Is USM removed in Porteus v5 rc2 ?
Yes, unfortunately.
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Bluetooth adapter not available

Post#5 by AbhayF18 » 25 Nov 2020, 19:02

How to fix that patch .dfu file?
And
Where are the MD5 and other Checksums of Porteus Linux v5 rc2?

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Post#6 by ncmprhnsbl » 25 Nov 2020, 21:54

ah, ok i see now, ..so where did you get the .dfu from? it's part of the kernel-firmware package in slackware: in /lib/firmware/ar3k/ , so that's where it should be placed, either in 000-kernel.xzm or in it's own module:

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(as root)
mkdir /tmp/patch/lib/firmware/ar3k/ 
cp AthrBT_0x31010000.dfu /tmp/patch/lib/firmware/ar3k/
dir2xzm /tmp/patch /tmp/ar3k_patch.xzm
and place ar3k_patch.xzm module in --/porteus/modules or --/porteus/base (-- being your install medium)
AbhayF18 wrote:
25 Nov 2020, 19:02
Where are the MD5 and other Checksums of Porteus Linux v5 rc2?
http://ublaze.ru/Porteus-v5.0rc2/md5sums.txt
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Post#7 by AbhayF18 » 26 Nov 2020, 11:10

I kept the module in the base folder and now I'm getting this error in dmesg output
[ 15.248715] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.22
[ 15.248740] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 15.248747] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 15.248753] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 15.248759] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[ 15.393650] Bluetooth: Configuration file not found ar3k/ramps_0x31010000_40.dfu
[ 15.393651] Bluetooth: Loading sysconfig file failed
[ 18.461527] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[ 18.461530] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[ 18.461559] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized

Then I tried to make one more module of ar3k with this ramps*.dfu and that dfu file which I downloaded from Github. So I made xzm module of both .dfu file and kept it in the base folder and deleted that old xzm module. But the same error is coming.
Is this not the right file??
https://github.com/smaccm/tk1-buildroot ... 000_40.dfu

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Post#8 by ncmprhnsbl » 26 Nov 2020, 12:38

hmm, maybe there's more needed..
i suggest getting the full slackware firmware package:
getpkg kernel-firmware
if you extract it(an archive manager will do) you'll see some folders in the ar3k directory, in particular: 3101 and 3101coex
maybe they have some function too... or just go the whole way and use the entire ar3k directory..
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Post#9 by AbhayF18 » 26 Nov 2020, 16:03

I made an xzm module of the whole ar3k folder and put it into the base folder and finally, it's working!!!!!
Now it's my favorite Linux distro.
I'm sharing the ar3k.xzm so that if someone faces the same problem then he can easily fix it.
https://mega.nz/file/urgwDD5Z#B4iyPqyyg ... qmdH4M5RkY
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Post#10 by ncmprhnsbl » 28 Nov 2020, 12:21

good to know :) , i'll mark this as solved..
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