sorry to bother, tried to follow religiously the steps provided, but it didn't work for me. I am using ubuntu 15.10 Alienware-17-R2 4.2.0-25-generic #30-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jan 18 12:31:50 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux dmesg | grep -i blue [ 3.751610] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.20 [ 3.751621] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized [ 3.751624] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized [ 3.751626] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized [ 3.751629] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized [ 5.064855] Bluetooth: Patch file not found ar3k/AthrBT_0x00000200.dfu [ 5.064857] Bluetooth: Loading patch file failed [ 10.482926] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3 [ 10.482929] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast [ 10.482933] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized lsmod |grep blue bluetooth 516096 10 bnep,ath3k,btbcm,btrtl,btusb,btintel so everything is similar in my system, it seems... so i simply followed: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hanipouspilot/bluetooth sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install btusb-lp1502781-dkms and In order to fix this bug in kernel 4.2 (use attached files) :
1- Install btusb-lp1502781-dkms_0.1_all.deb 2- Copy btbcm.h, btintel.h and btrtl.h to "/var/lib/dkms/btusb- lp1502781/0.1/build" 3- sudo make sudo make install 4- Reboot the computer. Shutting down instead, and restarting and i have made no progress. :-(( I am now trying to install kernel 4.3 to see if better... many thanks thomas -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1502781 Title: Bluetooth 0930:021c not working in Ubuntu 15.10 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1502781/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs