hi all
I'm sorry if This is the wrong place to post this, but I wasn't sure
which of the fedora lists was appropriate. I just bought myself a
bluetooth usb adaptor, since i got some really nice bluetooth headphones
for christmas. I plugged it into my fedora box and all seemed to go
well. The bluetooth icon showed up, I connected to the headset and ...
no sound.
I've done the following troubleshooting steps. I checked dmesg, and the
error I got was, hci0: autoload firmware brcm/bcm20702a1.hcd failed with
error -2. So this bluetooth adaptor, which said nothing about this on
the box, has a broadcom chip in it. If the firmware couldn't be loaded,
how could the device function? Does the linux btbcm module not require
it? I've also checked pulseaudio's config to see if maybe the bluetooth
modules weren't loaded, but in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf I see ifexists
module-bluetooth-discover.so
load-module module-bluetooth-discover.so. Same for bluetooth-policy, and
bluetooth-device.
I've read up on this, and saw that I also need to load
module-bluez5-device.so, but attempting this with pacmd gets me module
load failed. So I'm stumped. Linux seems to support this device, or the
bluetooth icon in gnome wouldn't have appeared. It can connect to the
headset, there's just no sound.
i've verified that the a2dp profile is set in gnome's sound settings.
I'm using fedora 23, completely up to date as of five minutes ago, with
a reboot to see if that helps. One quirk of this dongle is that it
doesn't seem to work until I unplug and replug. Until I do, the text in
gnome's bluetooth settings reads as, available as "bastian's computer
and available for bluetooth file transfers. Transferred files are placed
in the downloads folder". Once I plug the device in, it changes to
"available as tigger and available for bluetooth file transfers.
Transferred files are placed in the downloads folder" Is this a quirk of
gnome or the device?
I've done some research, and saw some posts on the linux kernel mailing
list where another person was having the same problem with a different
device with the same broadcom chip, a bcm20702a1, although it was a
different vid and pid. Support for all broadcom bluetooth usb chips was
supposed to be in kernel since kernel 3.2. I've already posted this to
the manjaro mailing lists, and was instructed by phil to download a
firmware file from amazon s3, place it in /lib/firmware/brcm, but it
didn't help. I'm completely stumped.
Anyone have any advice, help, etc?
Thanks for reading
Kendell clark
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