Kai-Heng: thanks for the suggestion, bluetooth now switches on & I can pair with devices.
Output of "dmesg | grep -i bluetooth" looks healthier too: martin@martin-N15-17RD:~$ dmesg | grep -i bluetooth [ 18.577708] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.22 [ 18.577724] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized [ 18.577728] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized [ 18.577730] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized [ 18.577733] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized [ 18.604676] Bluetooth: hci0: Bootloader revision 0.0 build 2 week 52 2014 [ 18.609699] Bluetooth: hci0: Device revision is 5 [ 18.609700] Bluetooth: hci0: Secure boot is enabled [ 18.609701] Bluetooth: hci0: OTP lock is enabled [ 18.609702] Bluetooth: hci0: API lock is enabled [ 18.609702] Bluetooth: hci0: Debug lock is disabled [ 18.609704] Bluetooth: hci0: Minimum firmware build 1 week 10 2014 [ 18.616186] Bluetooth: hci0: Found device firmware: intel/ibt-11-5.sfi [ 20.040219] Bluetooth: hci0: Waiting for firmware download to complete [ 20.040662] Bluetooth: hci0: Firmware loaded in 1403163 usecs [ 20.040696] Bluetooth: hci0: Waiting for device to boot [ 20.051673] Bluetooth: hci0: Device booted in 10735 usecs [ 20.053532] Bluetooth: hci0: Found Intel DDC parameters: intel/ibt-11-5.ddc [ 20.057675] Bluetooth: hci0: Applying Intel DDC parameters completed [ 20.153462] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3 [ 20.153463] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast [ 20.153466] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized [ 31.673667] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized [ 31.673673] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized [ 31.673677] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11 I guess the next time there's a kernel update for Ubuntu though it will wipe out the one you provided? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1832988 Title: Intel 8260 Bluetooth not working To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-bluetooth/+bug/1832988/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
