Hello I am new to Linux. I am running Mate 17.3 I went into the control center to turn on the bluetooth. I left click on it nothing happens; then I right click and a window opens and says"Start Bluetooth manager". After clicking on that, still nothing happens.
Can anyone please tell me how to get this operational?

Thank you,
Kissedbyfire

Hi rokytnji
thank you for replying to me. I just looked into the package manager... pre-installed is the bluez stack. In plain english please for this newbie (LOL) what steps do I do? I am very nervous to go into Terminal.
I was in the control center under preferred applications in the help menu and found this...


Wireless interfaces
You can modify the way the interface is configured (DHCP or manually), if the interface is configured manually, you can also modify the interface IP address, netmask and gateway, you can also modify the network name (ESSID) for this interface.

Do I need to do anything with this?


Next I went to terminal and entered: pactl load-module module-bluetooth-discover

I got a failure to load.




Thank you
Kissedbyfire

First we need to establish if you have Blue tooth or even if it's loaded in the kernel.

You will need to open a terminal. Nothing we do here will damage your system.

lsusb

Returns amongst other things

Bus 006 Device 003: ID 045e:0745 Microsoft Corp. Nano Transceiver v1.0 for Bluetooth

dmesg | grep Bluetooth

Returns the following.

[ 21.626139] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.20
[ 21.626154] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 21.626157] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 21.626160] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 21.626164] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[ 26.132505] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[ 26.132508] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[ 26.132513] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
[ 26.136428] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[ 26.136434] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[ 26.136438] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11

Post results here.