I originally got my bluetooth mouse to work after installing blueman. Then, it stopped. I do not recall what was updated on my laptop running Ubuntu 14.10. I can only tell you that it stopped and now bluetooth does not see my adapter, much less any devices. My problem is similar, if not identical, to:
Relevant details:
bud@nikotama:~⟫ uname -a
Linux nikotama 3.16.0-29-generic #39-Ubuntu SMP Mon Dec 15 22:27:29 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
bud@nikotama:~⟫ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 06) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor PCI Express x16 Controller (rev 06) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06) 00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio Controller (rev 06) 00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI (rev 05) 00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04) 00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI #2 (rev 05) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset High Definition Audio Controller (rev 05) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #1 (rev d5) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #2 (rev d5) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #3 (rev d5) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #4 (rev d5) 00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI #1 (rev 05) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation HM87 Express LPC Controller (rev 05) 00:1f.2 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] (rev 05) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 05) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM204M [GeForce GTX 970M] (rev ff) 03:00.0 PCI bridge: Texas Instruments XIO2213A/B/XIO2221 PCI Express to PCI Bridge [Cheetah Express] (rev 01) 04:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments XIO2213A/B/XIO2221 IEEE-1394b OHCI Controller [Cheetah Express] (rev 01) 05:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 5289 (rev 01) 05:00.2 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 0a) 06:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR9462 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01) bud@niko
bud@nikotama:~⟫ dmesg | grep luet [ 4.763439] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.19 [ 4.763450] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized [ 4.763455] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized [ 4.763456] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized [ 4.763462] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized [ 6.373884] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3 [ 6.373887] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast [ 6.373893] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized [ 6.381275] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized [ 6.381284] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized [ 6.381288] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11 [ 6.851218] Bluetooth: hci0 command 0x080f tx timeout
FYI, grepping for firmware or patch produces nothing additional.
bud@nikotama:~⟫ rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
The hci0 was soft blocked but I turned off. Nothing changed.
bud@nikotama:~⟫ hciconfig -a
hci0: Type: BR/EDR Bus: USB
BD Address: 80:56:F2:A5:8E:80 ACL MTU: 1022:8 SCO MTU: 183:5
DOWN
RX bytes:558 acl:0 sco:0 events:28 errors:0
TX bytes:353 acl:0 sco:0 commands:29 errors:1
Features: 0xff 0xfe 0x0d 0xfe 0xd8 0x7f 0x7b 0x8f
Packet type: DM1 DM3 DM5 DH1 DH3 DH5 HV1 HV2 HV3
Link policy:
Link mode: SLAVE ACCEPT
bud@nikotama:~⟫ sudo hciconfig hci0 down
bud@nikotama:~⟫ sudo hciconfig hci0 up Can't init device hci0: Connection timed out (110)
I see the type of GUI problems, with the bluetooth manager toggle flipping to on, but nothing happens. Blueman cannot see the adapter. I installed all the bluez addons and linux-firmware-nonfree, but none of this produced any change.
bud@nikotama:~⟫ lsmod
Module Size Used by
ctr 13049 1
ccm 17731 1
vmnet 51277 13
vmw_vsock_vmci_transport 26329 0
vsock 34903 1 vmw_vsock_vmci_transport
vmw_vmci 63011 1 vmw_vsock_vmci_transport
vmmon 84057 0
pci_stub 12622 1
vboxpci 23256 0
vboxnetadp 25670 0
vboxnetflt 27605 0
vboxdrv 418013 3 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt,vboxpci
bbswitch 13943 0
nvram 14423 0
rfcomm 69509 0
bnep 19543 2
snd_hda_codec_hdmi 47547 1
snd_hda_codec_realtek 76887 1
snd_hda_codec_generic 68914 1 snd_hda_codec_realtek
uvcvideo 810firewire_core 68671 1 firewire_ohci
ahci 34062 6
psmouse 106548 0
libahci 32424 1 ahci
rtsx_pci 46301 2 rtsx_pci_ms,rtsx_pci_sdmmc
dm_mirror 22040 0
mii 13934 1 r8169
crc_itu_t 12707 1 firewire_core
dm_region_hash 20850 1 dm_mirror
dm_log 18411 2 dm_region_hash,dm_mirror
If you need anything else, let me know. FWIW, wireless is fine.