Public bug reported:
This bug has been around since the 4.x kernels.
When the system boots up, Bluetooth is disabled as expected:
$ rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
2: tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
After we try to enable it with 'rfkill unblock bluetooth', the Bluetooth
interface hci0 is now present, but is soft blocked:
$ rfkill unblock bluetooth
$ rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
2: tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: noDescription: Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia
Release: 18.3
Hard blocked: no
10: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
However, Bluetooth is considered enabled by the thinkpad-acpi driver, as
we can see:
$ cat /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth
status: enabled
commands: enable, disable
The Bluetooth LED is also on.
'hciconfig' is seeing the Bluetooth adapter as being DOWN:
$ hciconfig
hci0: Type: BR/EDR Bus: USB
BD Address: 00:22:68:E4:BF:27 ACL MTU: 1021:8 SCO MTU: 64:1
DOWN
RX bytes:511 acl:0 sco:0 events:23 errors:0
TX bytes:339 acl:0 sco:0 commands:23 errors:0
To remove the soft block of hci0 and make the Bluetooth adapter fully
operational, we should run 'rfkill unblock bluetooth' one more time.
$ rfkill unblock bluetooth
$ rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
2: tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
10: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
$ hciconfig
hci0: Type: BR/EDR Bus: USB
BD Address: 00:22:68:E4:BF:27 ACL MTU: 1021:8 SCO MTU: 64:1
UP RUNNING PSCAN ISCAN
RX bytes:1046 acl:0 sco:0 events:50 errors:0
TX bytes:943 acl:0 sco:0 commands:50 errors:0
Now the adapter is fully operational.
This behavior confuses most of the GUI applets that are used by the
modern distributions, since they expect to have an operational adapter
after the first attempt to enable it. This makes it impossible to use
the Bluetooth adapter through them.
I`m currently testing on Linux Mint 18.3 MATE (with Ubuntu package base)
that is shipped with the 'blueberry' applet, it uses bt-adapter from the
BlueZ suite in the background to manage the Bluetooth adapter. Because
of this bug, it crashes and 'blueberry' is unable to use the Bluetooth.
** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Attachment added: "uname-a.log"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1760127/+attachment/5096101/+files/uname-a.log
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Title:
BCM2045B: Integrated Bluetooth adapter needs to be enabled twice to
work on ThinkPad T400
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