Bluetooth device not working (Raspberry Pi 3 - Leap 42.2)

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First, I just want to say thanks for getting a 64 bit version of Linux working on the Pi 3. I’ve been wanting to learn some armv8 64bit assembly, now I have a board and OS to practice on.

I installed this image, openSUSE-Leap42.2-ARM-JeOS-raspberrypi3.aarch64-2017.02.02-Build1.14.raw.xz, yesterday. Everything is working fine now (after fixing the WiFi) except for the bluetooth device. It’s not showing up with the following commands:


edge-case@waterdeep:~> systemctl status bluetooth
● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Thu 2017-03-16 16:08:59 CDT; 17h ago
     Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
 Main PID: 1262 (bluetoothd)
   Status: "Running"
    Tasks: 1 (limit: 512)
   CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service
           └─1262 /usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd
edge-case@waterdeep:~> hcitool dev
Devices:
edge-case@waterdeep:~> 
edge-case@waterdeep:~> bluetoothctl 
[bluetooth]# power on
No default controller available
[bluetooth]# exit
edge-case@waterdeep:~> sudo hcitool dev
Devices:
edge-case@waterdeep:~> sudo bluetoothctl 
[bluetooth]# power on
No default controller available
[bluetooth]#

I checked to see if I was a member of the bluetooth group, I am not, however there is not a bluetooth group in /etc/group. Perhaps OpenSUSE is different from debian in that regard?

Is it a known issue that the internal bluetooth is not working, and are there any solutions to get it working by any chance?

Thank you,
edge-case

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On Fri 17 Mar 2017 02:56:01 PM CDT, edge case wrote:

First, I just want to say thanks for getting a 64 bit version of Linux
working on the Pi 3. I’ve been wanting to learn some armv8 64bit
assembly, now I have a board and OS to practice on.

I installed this image,
openSUSE-Leap42.2-ARM-JeOS-raspberrypi3.aarch64-2017.02.02-Build1.14.raw.xz,
yesterday. Everything is working fine now (after fixing the WiFi) except
for the bluetooth device. It’s not showing up with the following
commands:

Code:

edge-case@waterdeep:~> systemctl status bluetooth
● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled;
vendor preset: disabled) Active: active (running) since Thu 2017-03-16
16:08:59 CDT; 17h ago Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
Main PID: 1262 (bluetoothd)
Status: “Running”
Tasks: 1 (limit: 512)
CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service
└─1262 /usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd
edge-case@waterdeep:~> hcitool dev
Devices:
edge-case@waterdeep:~>
edge-case@waterdeep:~> bluetoothctl
[bluetooth]# power on
No default controller available
[bluetooth]# exit
edge-case@waterdeep:~> sudo hcitool dev
Devices:
edge-case@waterdeep:~> sudo bluetoothctl
[bluetooth]# power on
No default controller available
[bluetooth]#

I checked to see if I was a member of the bluetooth group, I am not,
however there is not a bluetooth group in /etc/group. Perhaps OpenSUSE
is different from debian in that regard?

Is it a known issue that the internal bluetooth is not working, and are
there any solutions to get it working by any chance?

Thank you,
edge-case

Hi
See section 4.1 here (SLES 12 Aarch64 and Leap 42.2 are the same level);

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I suspect something in my install is incomplete - I get

sudo hciattach /dev/ttyAMA0 bcm43xx 921600
root's password:
bcm43xx_init
Cannot open directory '/etc/firmware': No such file or directory
Patch not found, continue anyway
Set Controller UART speed to 921600 bit/s
Device setup complete

but the bcm43 goodness is in /lib/firmware/brcm

locate bcm43xx
/lib/firmware/LICENCE.broadcom_bcm43xx
/lib/firmware/brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw
/lib/firmware/brcm/bcm43xx_hdr-0.fw

/lib/firmware/brcm also seems to include some audio goodness but I can’t get any audio despite adding dtparam=audio=on to config.txt - is it still the case no audio possible even on the jack? (I expect hdmi likely to take even longer.)

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Hi,
same situation for me, Bluetooth device not working. That is my response to systemctl status bluetooth:

systemctl status bluetooth -l
● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Tue 2017-08-01 12:25:46 CEST; 9min ago
Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
Main PID: 2692 (bluetoothd)
Status: “Running”
Tasks: 1 (limit: 512)
CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service
└─2692 /usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd

Aug 01 12:25:46 linux.suse systemd[1]: Starting Bluetooth service…
Aug 01 12:25:46 linux.suse bluetoothd[2692]: Bluetooth daemon 5.41
Aug 01 12:25:46 linux.suse systemd[1]: Started Bluetooth service.
Aug 01 12:25:46 linux.suse bluetoothd[2692]: Starting SDP server
Aug 01 12:25:46 linux.suse bluetoothd[2692]: Bluetooth management interface 1.10 initialized
Aug 01 12:25:46 linux.suse bluetoothd[2692]: Failed to obtain handles for “Service Changed” characteristic
Aug 01 12:25:46 linux.suse bluetoothd[2692]: Sap driver initialization failed.
Aug 01 12:25:46 linux.suse bluetoothd[2692]: sap-server: Operation not permitted (1)

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Give a look at my BD Address, it-s a default address. it seems like openSUSE doesn-t recognize my BLE component.
Can this be a plausible cause?

hciconfig -a
hci0: Type: Primary Bus: UART
BD Address: AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA ACL MTU: 1021:8 SCO MTU: 64:1
UP RUNNING PSCAN
RX bytes:1520 acl:0 sco:0 events:96 errors:0
TX bytes:1354 acl:0 sco:0 commands:92 errors:0
Features: 0xbf 0xfe 0xcf 0xfe 0xdb 0xff 0x7b 0x87
Packet type: DM1 DM3 DM5 DH1 DH3 DH5 HV1 HV2 HV3
Link policy: RSWITCH SNIFF
Link mode: SLAVE ACCEPT
Name: ‘linux.suse’
Class: 0x000104
Service Classes: Unspecified
Device Class: Computer, Desktop workstation
HCI Version: 4.1 (0x7) Revision: 0x0
LMP Version: 4.1 (0x7) Subversion: 0x2209
Manufacturer: Broadcom Corporation (15)

Thank you all for your support,
Marco

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I’m sorry for text errors, but I’m writing from a rpi3 with a 7inches lcd that doesn’t always work well.

Marco

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Hi Marco
Is this on leap 42.2?

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Hi Malcom,

yes Leap 42.2.

cat /etc/os-release
NAME=“openSUSE Leap”
VERSION=“42.2”
ID=opensuse
ID_LIKE=“suse”
VERSION_ID=“42.2”
PRETTY_NAME=“openSUSE Leap 42.2”
ANSI_COLOR=“0;32”
CPE_NAME=“cpe:/o:opensuse:leap:42.2”
BUG_REPORT_URL=“https://bugs.opensuse.org”
HOME_URL=“https://www.opensuse.org/”

NOTE: May it could help. few days ago I run sudo zypper dup in the hope of solving the BLE problem.

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Hi
OK, weird (since it works fine on SLES 12 RPI), so…

When you run the command;


linux:~ # hciattach /dev/ttyAMA0 bcm43xx 921600
bcm43xx_init
Cannot open directory '/etc/firmware': No such file or directory
Patch not found, continue anyway
Set Controller UART speed to 921600 bit/s
Device setup complete

It’s looking in /etc/firmware (a bug)… so lets make it happy…


mkdir -p /etc/firmware
ln -s /lib/firmware/BCM43430A1.hcd /etc/firmware/BCM43430A1.hcd
systemctl reboot

When the system is back up…


hciattach /dev/ttyAMA0 bcm43xx 921600
bcm43xx_init
Set Controller UART speed to 921600 bit/s
Flash firmware /etc/firmware/BCM43430A1.hcd
Initialization timed out.

hciattach /dev/ttyAMA0 bcm43xx 921600
bcm43xx_init
Patch not found, continue anyway
Set Controller UART speed to 921600 bit/s
Device setup complete

hciconfig -a
hci0:   Type: Primary  Bus: UART
BD Address: B1:57:FB:D1:29:39  ACL MTU: 1021:8  SCO MTU: 64:1
DOWN
RX bytes:654 acl:0 sco:0 events:33 errors:0
TX bytes:419 acl:0 sco:0 commands:33 errors:0
Features: 0xbf 0xfe 0xcf 0xfe 0xdb 0xff 0x7b 0x87
Packet type: DM1 DM3 DM5 DH1 DH3 DH5 HV1 HV2 HV3
Link policy: RSWITCH SNIFF
Link mode: SLAVE ACCEPT

hciconfig hci0 up
hcitool scan
Scanning ...
XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX       iPhone

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SOLVED!!!

Now BLE works.
Thank you very much Malcom.

Kind regards,
Marco

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On Wed 02 Aug 2017 07:16:01 AM CDT, mgoldfinch wrote:

SOLVED!!!

Now BLE works.
Thank you very much Malcom.

Kind regards,
Marco

Hi
Well not really, seems it’s bluez is missing patches so will open a bug
report…

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Hi
Bug reference: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1051874