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Old 09-16-2017, 12:25 PM   #1
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Install laptop bluetooth in debian 9.1


I am trying to install the firmware of the bluetooth card of my laptop and and I'm having problems.

My bluetooth model is (from lsusb):

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Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04ca:2006 Lite-On Technology Corp. Broadcom BCM43142A0 Bluetooth Device
My "dmesg|grep Blue" is:

Code:
[   12.137580] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.22
[   12.137615] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[   12.137620] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[   12.137624] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[   12.137632] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[   14.314089] Bluetooth: hci0 command 0x1001 tx timeout
[   16.716328] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[   16.716334] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[   16.716349] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
[   22.509378] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: Reading local version info failed (-110)
[  162.409913] Bluetooth: hci0 command 0x1001 tx timeout
[  170.541220] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: Reading local version info failed (-110)
It's the type of cards that work inside my laptop's wifi card, and I see that the package "brcm80211" does not support my bluetooth model: https://wiki.debian.org/brcm80211

I have read that it is as simple as downloading the .hcd for my model from: https://github.com/winterheart/broadcom-bt-firmware

In my case it would be exactly this file: "BCM43142A0-04ca-2006.hcd"

I have downloaded it and placed it in /lib/firmware/brcm

But it still does not work, I've wasted hours trying to fix this and I can not get it to work.

Any ideas? Thank you very much.
 
Old 09-16-2017, 01:44 PM   #2
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Any firmware loading failure will be in dmesg, knowing the reason why firmware does not load will help to solve the problem.
 
Old 09-17-2017, 10:49 AM   #3
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Any firmware loading failure will be in dmesg, knowing the reason why firmware does not load will help to solve the problem.
The only thing I find in the dmesg related to bluetooth is what I have already posted in the post, maybe this is the cause of the problem:

Code:
[   22.509378] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: Reading local version info failed (-110)
[  162.409913] Bluetooth: hci0 command 0x1001 tx timeout
[  170.541220] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: Reading local version info failed (-110)
And when I try to see my bluetooth device from blueman-manager or bluedevil does not appear to me.
 
Old 09-17-2017, 11:05 AM   #4
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Search brings up some interesting articles. Arch Wiki hints this device works in Linux.
 
Old 09-18-2017, 07:20 AM   #5
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I have solved it, if someone else happens to you it is as simple as renaming "BCM43142A0-04ca-2006.hcd" to "BCM.hcd"
 
  


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