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Bluetooth on my Lenovo IdeaPad Z580A seems to initialize well (see dmesg output below), but gnome-bluetooth applet behaves quite strange: icon and its tooltip shows that bluetooth is disabled, but when left-clicked the context menu claims it's enabled; however, when "Preferences" are clicked, it again claims that Bluetooth is disabled. After clicking a prominent button "Turn on Bluetooth" in the center of "Preferences" window, nothing changes, but the button appears disabled (font greys). And, of course, i cannot find the laptop when searching from a cell phone.
Adding the user to the group "dialout", as suggested in /usr/share/doc/bluez-utils/README.Debian.gz, does not help.
As i can see from windows (installed alongside), the bluetooth is managed by Broadcom device, and i know that WiFi is also managed by some Broadcom device (see lspci). As only one device appears, i assume that both WiFi and Bluetooth are controlled by it. I have found some thread where some wise man claimed that NM is to be blamed for it, but there questionig user resolved his problem by bying a dongle. So i do not know actual solution to my problem (as i am afraid to remove NM ).
Debian 6.0.5, 3.2.0-0.bpo.3-amd64 kernel.
Part of the dmesg output (i hope the rest part is not needed (still not used to using touchpad to copy-paste), this is in the least part of dmesg output):
Code:
[ 21.375438] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 24.649676] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.16
[ 24.649703] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[ 24.649706] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 24.649710] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 24.649713] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 24.649720] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[ 24.834662] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[ 24.834670] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[ 24.853707] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[ 24.913998] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
[ 24.929100] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[ 24.929105] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[ 24.929107] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11
[ 24.935098] Bridge firewalling registered
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0489:e032 Foxconn / Hon Hai
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 04f2:b2e1 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:0139 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
.
Many thanks in advance for any help.
Last edited by HRS1064; 10-02-2012 at 02:29 PM.
Reason: add notebook model
At first, thank you for your desire to help!
I have tried to build the proprietary driver module with m-a, but it failed to do this and returned error 2; errors started where .ndo_set_multicast_list was requested and not found...
Code:
/usr/src/modules/broadcom-sta/amd64/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c:219: error:
unknown field ‘ndo_set_multicast_list’ in the initializator
(mayby not exactly so, i translated bash messages as my locale is Russian).
So i tried to install the patch from the second link you have given me - but this also failed with error messages:
Code:
patching file src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c
Hunk #1 FAILED at 332.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c.rej
And this file contains essentially nothing except two lines "/dev/null" and the text of the patch of its own.
I am sorry for bringing this back to attention, but the problem persists.
Maybe this also would be useful:
/var/log/daemon.log:
Code:
Oct 13 14:04:35 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: <info> NetworkManager (version 0.8.1) is starting...
Oct 13 14:04:35 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: <info> Read config file /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf
Oct 13 14:04:35 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: <info> trying to start the modem manager...
Oct 13 14:04:35 esmu-dators1 modem-manager: ModemManager (version 0.4) starting...
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 modem-manager: Loaded plugin MotoC
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 modem-manager: Loaded plugin Nokia
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 modem-manager: Loaded plugin Option
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 modem-manager: Loaded plugin ZTE
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 modem-manager: Loaded plugin Option High-Speed
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 modem-manager: Loaded plugin Generic
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 modem-manager: Loaded plugin Sierra
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 modem-manager: Loaded plugin Ericsson MBM
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 modem-manager: Loaded plugin Gobi
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 modem-manager: Loaded plugin Huawei
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 modem-manager: Loaded plugin Novatel
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 modem-manager: Loaded plugin AnyData
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 modem-manager: Loaded plugin SimTech
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 modem-manager: Loaded plugin Longcheer
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 modem-manager: (tty/ttyS0): port's parent platform driver is not whitelisted
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 modem-manager: (tty/ttyS1): port's parent platform driver is not whitelisted
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 modem-manager: (tty/ttyS2): port's parent platform driver is not whitelisted
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 modem-manager: (tty/ttyS3): port's parent platform driver is not whitelisted
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: init!
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: update_system_hostname
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: adding mapping eth0 to well_known_interfaces
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: SCPluginIfupdown: guessed connection type (eth0) = 802-3-ethernet
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: update_connection_setting_from_if_block: name:eth0, type:802-3-ethernet, id:Ifupdown (eth0), uuid: 681b428f-beaf-8932-dce4-687ed5bae28e
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: addresses count: 1
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: adding eth0 to iface_connections
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: adding iface eth0 to well_known_interfaces
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: SCPluginIfupdown: guessed connection type (eth0-home) = 802-3-ethernet
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: update_connection_setting_from_if_block: name:eth0-home, type:802-3-ethernet, id:Ifupdown (eth0-home), uuid: ea581e00-450c-272a-1103-39abf0031c8b
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: adding eth0-home to iface_connections
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: adding iface eth0-home to well_known_interfaces
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: SCPluginIfupdown: guessed connection type (none) = 802-3-ethernet
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: update_connection_setting_from_if_block: name:none, type:802-3-ethernet, id:Ifupdown (none), uuid: 7e054df0-3287-5797-63b2-9fd396607f06
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: adding none to iface_connections
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: adding iface none to well_known_interfaces
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: autoconnect
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: SCPluginIfupdown: management mode: unmanaged
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices added (path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.1/0000:03:00.0/net/eth0, iface: eth0)
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: SCPluginIfupdown: locking wired connection setting
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices added (path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.2/0000:04:00.0/net/wlan0, iface: wlan0)
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: device added (path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.2/0000:04:00.0/net/wlan0, iface: wlan0): no ifupdown configuration found.
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices added (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/lo, iface: lo)
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: device added (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/lo, iface: lo): no ifupdown configuration found.
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: end _init.
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: <info> Loaded plugin ifupdown: (C) 2008 Canonical Ltd. To report bugs please use the NetworkManager mailing list.
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: <info> Loaded plugin keyfile: (c) 2007 - 2008 Red Hat, Inc. To report bugs please use the NetworkManager mailing list.
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: Ifupdown: get unmanaged devices count: 1
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: (33557856) ... get_connections.
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: (33557856) ... get_connections (managed=false): return empty list.Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: Ifupdown: get unmanaged devices count: 1
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: <info> found WiFi radio killswitch rfkill0 (at /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A08:00/device:02/PNP0C09:00/VPC2004:00/rfkill/rfkill0) (driver ideapad_acpi)
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: <info> found WiFi radio killswitch rfkill2 (at /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.2/0000:04:00.0/ieee80211/phy0/rfkill2) (driver <unknown>)
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: <info> WiFi enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: <info> WWAN enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: <info> WiMAX enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: <info> Networking is enabled by state file
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: <info> (eth0): carrier is ON
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: <info> (eth0): new Ethernet device (driver: 'r8169' ifindex: 2)
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: <info> (eth0): exported as /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: <info> (wlan0): driver supports SSID scans (scan_capa 0x01).
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: <info> (wlan0): new 802.11 WiFi device (driver: 'brcmsmac' ifindex: 3)
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: <info> (wlan0): exported as /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: <info> (wlan0): now managed
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 1 -> 2 (reason 2)
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: <info> (wlan0): bringing up device.
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: <info> (wlan0): preparing device.
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: <info> (wlan0): deactivating device (reason: 2).
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: supplicant_interface_acquire: assertion `mgr_state == NM_SUPPLICANT_MANAGER_STATE_IDLE' failed
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: <info> modem-manager is now available
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: <warn> bluez error getting default adapter: The name org.bluez was not provided by any .service files
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: <info> Trying to start the supplicant...
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant manager state: down -> idle
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 2 -> 3 (reason 0)
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: starting -> ready
Oct 13 14:04:36 esmu-dators1 wpa_supplicant[1422]: Failed to initiate AP scan.
Oct 13 14:04:37 esmu-dators1 acpid: starting up with netlink and the input layer
Oct 13 14:04:37 esmu-dators1 acpid: 42 rules loaded
Oct 13 14:04:37 esmu-dators1 acpid: waiting for events: event logging is off
Oct 13 14:04:37 esmu-dators1 acpid: client connected from 1441[0:0]
Oct 13 14:04:37 esmu-dators1 acpid: 1 client rule loaded
Oct 13 14:04:38 esmu-dators1 avahi-daemon[1522]: Found user 'avahi' (UID 105) and group 'avahi' (GID 108).
Oct 13 14:04:38 esmu-dators1 avahi-daemon[1522]: Successfully dropped root privileges.
Oct 13 14:04:38 esmu-dators1 avahi-daemon[1522]: avahi-daemon 0.6.27 starting up.
Oct 13 14:04:38 esmu-dators1 bluetoothd[1532]: Bluetooth deamon 4.66
Oct 13 14:04:38 esmu-dators1 avahi-daemon[1522]: Successfully called chroot().
Oct 13 14:04:38 esmu-dators1 avahi-daemon[1522]: Successfully dropped remaining capabilities.
Oct 13 14:04:38 esmu-dators1 avahi-daemon[1522]: No service file found in /etc/avahi/services.
Oct 13 14:04:38 esmu-dators1 avahi-daemon[1522]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv6 with address fe80::67d:7bff:fe8d:5a23.
Oct 13 14:04:38 esmu-dators1 avahi-daemon[1522]: New relevant interface eth0.IPv6 for mDNS.
Oct 13 14:04:38 esmu-dators1 avahi-daemon[1522]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv4 with address 81.198.37.234.
Oct 13 14:04:38 esmu-dators1 avahi-daemon[1522]: New relevant interface eth0.IPv4 for mDNS.
Oct 13 14:04:38 esmu-dators1 avahi-daemon[1522]: Network interface enumeration completed.
Oct 13 14:04:38 esmu-dators1 avahi-daemon[1522]: Registering new address record for fe80::67d:7bff:fe8d:5a23 on eth0.*.
Oct 13 14:04:38 esmu-dators1 avahi-daemon[1522]: Registering new address record for 81.198.37.234 on eth0.IPv4.
Oct 13 14:04:38 esmu-dators1 avahi-daemon[1522]: Registering HINFO record with values 'X86_64'/'LINUX'.
Oct 13 14:04:38 esmu-dators1 bluetoothd[1532]: Starting SDP server
Oct 13 14:04:38 esmu-dators1 bluetoothd[1532]: Starting experimental netlink support
Oct 13 14:04:38 esmu-dators1 bluetoothd[1532]: Failed to find Bluetooth netlink family
Oct 13 14:04:38 esmu-dators1 bluetoothd[1532]: Failed to init netlink plugin
Oct 13 14:04:38 esmu-dators1 bluetoothd[1532]: bridge pan0 created
Oct 13 14:04:38 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices added (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/pan0, iface: pan0)
Oct 13 14:04:38 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: device added (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/pan0, iface: pan0): no ifupdown configuration found.
Oct 13 14:04:38 esmu-dators1 NetworkManager[1407]: <warn> /sys/devices/virtual/net/pan0: couldn't determine device driver; ignoring...
Oct 13 14:04:38 esmu-dators1 modem-manager: (net/pan0): could not get port's parent device
Oct 13 14:04:39 esmu-dators1 avahi-daemon[1522]: Server startup complete. Host name is esmu-dators1.local. Local service cookie is 1781992278.
Oct 13 14:04:46 esmu-dators1 gnome-session[2032]: atk-bridge-WARNING: AT_SPI_REGISTRY was not started at session startup.
Oct 13 14:04:46 esmu-dators1 gnome-session[2032]: atk-bridge-WARNING: IOR not set.
Oct 13 14:04:46 esmu-dators1 gnome-session[2032]: atk-bridge-WARNING: Could not locate registry
Oct 13 14:04:47 esmu-dators1 polkitd[2052]: started daemon version 0.96 using authority implementation `local' version `0.96'
Oct 13 14:04:49 esmu-dators1 gdm-simple-greeter[2049]: Gtk-WARNING: /scratch/build-area/gtk+2.0-2.20.1/gtk/gtkwidget.c:5628: widget not within a GtkWindow
Oct 13 14:05:01 esmu-dators1 gdm-simple-greeter[2049]: WARNING: Failed to send buffer
Oct 13 14:05:20 esmu-dators1 AptDaemon: INFO: Initializing daemon
Oct 13 14:10:21 esmu-dators1 AptDaemon: INFO: Quiting due to inactivity
Oct 13 14:10:21 esmu-dators1 AptDaemon: INFO: Shutdown was requested
Oct 13 14:33:57 esmu-dators1 dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 46.109.88.1 port 67
Oct 13 14:33:57 esmu-dators1 dhclient: DHCPACK from 46.109.88.1
Oct 13 14:33:57 esmu-dators1 dhclient: bound to 81.198.37.234 -- renewal in 10816 seconds.
Last edited by HRS1064; 10-14-2012 at 08:28 AM.
Reason: unintended rudeness (sorry, my poor English)
Following some advice in #! forum, I have installed packages from "testing" Debian repository (m-a did not comply and all the rest ran smoothly). Now I can suppose the Broadcom device is managed better (as I now see wireless networks of two my neighbours ), but the bluetooth problem persists.
Also, "GNOME Network" shows some inactive "unknown interface" pan0. Maybe in my case Bluetooth device is misrecognized as net interface by some part of device management software? How can I check that? Thanks in advance.
Okay, I googled and found that pan0 is normally assigned for Bluetooth So where could the root of the problem be?..
Here is some info from cat /var/log/daemon.log | grep bluetooth:
Code:
Oct 22 06:27:13 esmu-dators1 bluetoothd[1517]: Bluetooth deamon 4.66
Oct 22 06:27:13 esmu-dators1 bluetoothd[1517]: Starting SDP server
Oct 22 06:27:13 esmu-dators1 bluetoothd[1517]: Starting experimental netlink support
Oct 22 06:27:13 esmu-dators1 bluetoothd[1517]: Failed to find Bluetooth netlink family
Oct 22 06:27:13 esmu-dators1 bluetoothd[1517]: Failed to init netlink plugin
Oct 22 06:27:13 esmu-dators1 bluetoothd[1517]: bridge pan0 created
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