Cant enable bluetooth on Thinkpad X220 xUbuntu 14.04

14.04 xubuntu bluetooth thinkpad

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Solution 1

Install Bluetooth drivers and necessary packages:

sudo apt-get install bluez bluez-alsa bluez-audio bluez-btsco bluez-compat bluez-cups bluez-dbg bluez-gstreamer bluez-hcidump bluez-pcmcia-support bluez-tools bluez-utils python-bluez bluewho indicator-bluetooth libbluetooth-dev  libgnome-bluetooth11 libbluetooth3 python-gobject python-dbus

Then try to connect via the application bluez.

Solution 2

Have you tried ThinkWiki bluetooth setup guide? I got my ThinkPad bluetooth working thanks to this: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_setup_Bluetooth

I am not sure if this works for you but its worth a shot.

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James Valentine

Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

James Valentine over 1 year
I am having problems enabling bluetooth since installing xUbuntu 14.04 on my Thinkpad X220, in 13.10 all was working fine.

When I installed 14.04 I did a fresh install rather than upgrade.

Running
```
/proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth
```
returns no such file or directory, so I'm guessing that I don't have the appropriate IBM bluetooth drivers installed.

/proc/acpi/ibm/ only contains: beep, cmos, driver, fan, hotkey, led, light, video, volume

Where can I get these from?

Cheers Jim

Update:

It would appear that the Bluetooth daughter card is not being recognised at all, I have swapped the card over as I have 2 of them, but still no luck. As far as I am aware the Bluetooth daughter cards are USB based.

The output of 'lsusb' returns:
```
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 15ca:00c3 Textech International Ltd. Mini Optical Mouse
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 004: ID 04f2:b217 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd Lenovo Integrated Camera (0.3MP)
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 147e:2016 Upek Biometric Touchchip/Touchstrip Fingerprint Sensor
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
```
- TuKsn almost 10 years
  
  What will happen if you run sudo service bluetooth restart
- James Valentine almost 10 years
  
  @Xubu-Tur When I run that command it returns: Bluetooth Stop/Waiting Bluetooth Start/Running Process 5254 But still no Bluetooth even after Fn+F5 or running blueman-manager Cheers Jim
- TuKsn almost 10 years
  
  Perhaps this link can help askubuntu.com/questions/363401/cant-enable-bluetooth-13-10
- Rinzwind almost 10 years
  
  Did you check if the BT service is actually running?
- James Valentine almost 10 years
  
  @Xubu-Tur Hi, I have attempted both answers with no results.
Matías over 8 years

Off topic? Ja klar,