hello. my laptop has not had functioning bluetooth since may 16.
Every time i go back to the snapshot i perfomed that day, bluetooth comes back online . But every time i update my system, from there, the problem reappers. this suggests my hardware is fine and the problem is with opensuse tumebleweed.
My desktop is gnome and my laptop is :
Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 14AMN8
Gnome shows the bluetooth symbol crossed out
hui
May 24, 2026, 3:59pm
2
Mediatek chip? Known issue. Will be fixed with next kernel-default-7.0.10
Very recently, on KDE, I cannot enable bluetooth.
It does seems that the service is running…
sudo systemctl status bluetooth
[sudo] password for root:
â—Ź bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Sun 2026-05-17 20:51:01 PDT; 16min ago
Invocation: b8901657246f4ccd9a9e40a54baeaeb2
Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
Main PID: 2142 (bluetoothd)
Status: "Running"
Tasks: …
Bluetooth not working after update, got this:
[bluetoothctl]> power on
No default controller available
[bluetoothctl]>
Any ideas folks? Was all working before this. Have tried the applet and system settings and bluetooth cannot be enabled
also got this:
bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Mon 2026-05-18 19:15:30 BST; 27min ago
Invocation: 7cfaf96e74764c79abd71f…
-could you please tell me how to check what wireless chip i have?
hui
May 24, 2026, 4:32pm
4
You can use as example
inxi -E
hui
May 25, 2026, 3:07pm
6
This “fix” does not help as your issue is unrelated to the Mediatek issue. Please read the threads and the bugreport. There is nothing what can be done on user side beside waiting for the next kernel 7.0.10 which will fix the problem.
You have been told multiple times that the issues with mediatek chips is a kernel bug and require an updated kernel.
Stop posting this until you know the person experiencing issues is not running a mediatek bluetooth chip.
I saw no reference to the mediatek chip in the original post.
I’ll withdraw my fix.
Why didn’t someone just say that:
Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 14AMN8 contains mediatek chip that is a known issue.
I see nothing like that anywhere. That would have eliminated this confusion generated from trying to be helpful.
hui
May 25, 2026, 3:39pm
10
To combine these statements, one needs some overview over actual bugreports and forum threads. But then it clears up…
=> Broken since kernel 7.0.7
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1265457
Bluetooth not working after update, got this:
[bluetoothctl]> power on
No default controller available
[bluetoothctl]>
Any ideas folks? Was all working before this. Have tried the applet and system settings and bluetooth cannot be enabled
also got this:
bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Mon 2026-05-18 19:15:30 BST; 27min ago
Invocation: 7cfaf96e74764c79abd71f…
if have tried a “zypper dup”
So it should upgrade from openSUSE Tumbleweed 20260504-0 → 20260525-0
but still getting kernel-default-7.0.9-2.1
If I look into the software.opensuse.org for Tumbleweedthere is already a Version 7.0.10.
That confuses me…
Kernel 7.0.10 is in snapshot 20260526 currently testing in openQA, see Tumbleweed/diff/20260526
So the Factory package you see in software.o.o may or may not still have problems.
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Just updated to opensuse-tumbleweed 20370527
with kernel 7.0.10-2-default
Bluetooth works nicely again
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20260526 was not released. 7.0.10 is in 20260527, which was released.