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I have wifi and Bluetooth modules RT3290. Wifi is working fine but Bluetooth is shown as disabled under Bluetooth settings. Can anyone help me fix this?

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  • There is a longstanding, ongoing bug about this card, affecting a lot of users, in different ways. Here is the bug. We might need to wait until a complete fix is released.
    – user308164
    Aug 3, 2016 at 5:40

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I use Ubuntu 16.04 (Kernel 4.8)

  1. Run 

    sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-generic

  2. Download zip from here on GitHub and unzip it to Desktop.

  3. Change your directory to new unzipped directory (i.e. ~/Desktop/rtbth-dkms-master).

  4. Run the following commands one by one

    make
sudo make install
sudo cp -r ~/Desktop/rtbth-dkms-master /usr/src/rtbth-3.9.3
sudo dkms install rtbth/3.9.3
sudo nano /etc/modules

  5. Add rtbth at the end, then Ctrl+O and ENTER (to save the file) and Ctrl+x to close the editor

  6. Reboot

Ref : https://askubuntu.com/a/828925/703994 ; https://askubuntu.com/a/904222/703994

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  • Actually it should be "sudo chmod +x *", means all files.
    – N.Sinha
    Jun 26, 2017 at 8:28
  • Most of the files were C files so I was kind of skeptical about it. Agree with you and I would appreciate if you could advise on the same.
    – N.Sinha
    Jun 26, 2017 at 8:37
  • I tried this way but didn't work for me. Using above approach although I am not able to pair my devices but at least I can see a bluetooth icon on my staus bar.
    – N.Sinha
    Jun 26, 2017 at 11:44
  • Worked for ubuntu 19.04 too.
    – Shubham pokhriyal
    May 17, 2019 at 15:45
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It is a supported card for bluetooth http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/catalog/component/pci/1814%3A3298/

There is a to getting it working with bluetooth here Ralink Bluetooth not working in Ubuntu 13.04

The second answer shows how to compile it yourself which you will need to do if the modules in the archive don't load because the kernel has changed since they where built

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A fix that was reported to work is from a github site, to install 

sudo apt-get install git dkms build-essential linux-headers-generic
git clone https://github.com/f1u77y/rtbth.git
cd rtbth
make 
sudo make install

Reboot

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  • Thank you for the suggestion, but it didn't work
    – Mina Aboud
    May 28, 2016 at 15:08
  • I would uninstall it then with cd rtbth && sudo make uninstall
    – Jeremy31
    May 28, 2016 at 15:27

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