Hot on the heels of my success with getting the better of the speaker/headphone issues with my netbook - thank you, all! - I am now emboldened enough to broach my Bluetooth issue with LM 19.3. Basically, I can't get any response when I run the command

systemctl start bluetooth


Is it possible that Bluetooth is not there at all, and would need to be installed? Guidance welcome, and gratefully received!

Alok Rai

mint should come with bluetooth installed. is there a listing for bluetooth in the menu?

Thanks, cordx. Mint is there on the menu alright. But running systemctl start bluetooth in Terminal produces no response at all. Perhaps I need to uninstall bluetooth and reinstall it?

AR

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Open system settings. Open Bluetooth and check to see if it is disabled. If it's enabled, you should see your devices.

Oh, it can "see" the devices alright - but it refuses to have any more to do with them! That's why I thought it might be an idea to uninstall/reinstall Bluetooth.

What is the bluetooth device you want to set-up? For a bluetooth pairing, normally a code needs to be entered to allow the device to connect.

Since the bluetooth gui is not functioning, I thought I would start bluetooth from the Terminal, and then do the scan etc. and get the requisite code for the pairing. But I am unable to start Bluetooth from the Terminal. Any idea why?

Thanks.

I thought you said you can see the device in the bluetooth GUI We still do not know what type of device you are trying to pair. We need more information.
Can you give more information on If you want to see if the bluetooth service is running type check to see if it is "Active (running)" and if there are any errors.
If it is not running you can type

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I was unable to get the Bluetooth gui to actually connect to the Bluetooth speaker that I wished to connect to - even though it could see it.

Then I ran the "status" command suggested by you, in Terminal - and the output, here, might hold the clue to why that is:

systemctl status bluetooth.service
● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; vendor preset
Active: inactive (dead)
Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)

Dead sounds pretty final. Any help there?

AR

You didn't look at the last set of commands to enable and start the service. Make sure you use sudo

Here comes the output:

$ sudo systemctl enable bluetooth.service
[sudo] password for alok:
Synchronizing state of bluetooth.service with SysV service script with /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install.
Executing: /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install enable bluetooth
alok@alok-1015CX:~$ sudo systemctl start bluetooth.service
alok@alok-1015CX:~$ sudo systemctl status bluetooth.service
● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; vendor preset
Active: inactive (dead)
Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
...skipping...
● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; vendor preset
Active: inactive (dead)
Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)


Hope that helps!

Thanks.

Can you boot into your BIOS and look to see if bluetooth is disabled there?

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Sorry for this laggard response -

I'm afraid I don't know what "boot into my BIOS" might mean - and how I could conceivably do it.

Please tell me.

AR

The BIOS software has a number of different roles, but its most important role is to load the operating system. When you turn on your computer and the microprocessor tries to execute its first instruction, it has to get that instruction from somewhere. It cannot get it from the operating system because the operating system is located on a hard disk, and the microprocessor cannot get to it without some instructions that tell it how. The BIOS provides those instructions

The information in this link explains how to access the bios. https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews...ware,5732.html

**Note: Because the BIOS is like the heart of the computer, if you don't know what you are doing, you could brake your computer.**

So, I do not what you to brake your system.

Thanks. I will try and interrupt the boot sequence and see if there is any useful information there.

And yes, I'll be careful, and try not to break my system! Bluetooth I can live without.

AR