Although this bug report is closed, I want to say that I have a Dell Inspiron 1545 with Broadcom Bluetooth device not detected. I installed kbluetooth4 as kdawgud said, but in my case I had no luck. The dev is not detected:
$ sudo hid2hci Switching device 413c:8162 to HCI mode was successful $ lsusb Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 007 Device 002: ID 04d9:0499 Holtek Semiconductor, Inc. Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 001 Device 004: ID 05ca:180a Ricoh Co., Ltd Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:0158 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Mass Stroage Device Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 003 Device 004: ID 413c:8162 Dell Computer Corp. Bus 003 Device 003: ID 413c:8161 Dell Computer Corp. Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0a5c:4500 Broadcom Corp. Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub It's not there. However, the kernel knows about it: $ dmesg | grep Bluetooth [ 0.596009] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.13 [ 0.596020] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized [ 0.596020] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized [ 3.293890] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.11 [ 3.293892] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized [ 3.293894] Bluetooth: SCO (Voice Link) ver 0.6 [ 3.293896] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized [ 3.293930] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized [ 3.293937] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized [ 3.293938] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.10 [ 15.255648] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3 [ 15.255652] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast -- Internal laptop bluetooth device not detected on dell Inspiron 1545 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/342025 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
