Bluetooth issues in LM 19.3 XFCE

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

according to everything you have posted here, you still haven't started your bluetooth service:

Originally Posted by michaelsavage sudo systemctl start bluetooth.service

cordx - He did run the start command with sudo. You missed this part.

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)

That is why I thought bluetooth was disabled in the BIOS.

you are indeed correct. i read straight past that more than once.

it might help to check

rfkill

to see if anything is blocked.