Bluetooth device not found

rupke · 04-20-2018, 03:32 PM

Hello all!

I have an old HP Pavilion x2 notebook, installed with Linux Mint.
The problem I am having is with the bluetooth.
When I check in the terminal with lshw I am getting:

Code:

*-generic UNCLAIMED
                description: Bluetooth
                product: RT3290 Bluetooth
                vendor: Ralink corp.
                physical id: 0.1
                bus info: pci@0000:01:00.1
                version: 00
                width: 32 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm msi pciexpress cap_list
                configuration: latency=0
                resources: memory:f1000000-f100ffff

However in the preferences→Bluetooth it states that no bluetooth device is detected.
How do I proceed?

camorri · 04-21-2018, 09:55 AM

From what little you have posted, it looks like no driver is loaded. ( I could be wrong there ).

Please post the output of these commands. 'sudo lsmod | grep blue' and 'rfkill list'. Just what is between the quotes.

I did a quick search on 'linux driver for RT3290 Bluetooth' and there are lots of hits. The solution is probably there.

AwesomeMachine · 04-21-2018, 06:05 PM

Is the blueman package installed?

mrapathy · 04-21-2018, 09:14 PM

May be a permission issue or could be a firmware issue. to get my bluetooth working I had to add my user to a group.

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...th-4175586312/

try posting dmesg