My Bluetooth Stopped Working

English Hardware
1

Hello,

I installed Tumbleweed yesterday and all of my peripherals were working fine.

Today I decided to connect my Bluetooth earbuds but the system says " No Bluetooth Adapters Found"

I have dual-boot system with Windows 10.

Here are some outputs that can help you,

$ sudo systemctl status bluetooth

● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Thu 2025-04-17 08:47:44 EAT; 43min ago
Invocation: 38f8a02f26774353adda71a8ab0d456e
Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
Main PID: 974 (bluetoothd)
Status: “Running”
Tasks: 1 (limit: 9180)
CPU: 193ms
CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service
└─974 /usr/libexec/bluetooth/bluetoothd

Apr 17 08:47:44 localhost bluetoothd[974]: src/plugin.c:init_plugin() System does not support bap plugin
Apr 17 08:47:44 localhost bluetoothd[974]: src/plugin.c:init_plugin() System does not support bass plugin
Apr 17 08:47:44 localhost bluetoothd[974]: src/plugin.c:init_plugin() System does not support mcp plugin
Apr 17 08:47:44 localhost bluetoothd[974]: src/plugin.c:init_plugin() System does not support vcp plugin
Apr 17 08:47:44 localhost bluetoothd[974]: profiles/audio/micp.c:micp_init() D-Bus experimental not enabled
Apr 17 08:47:44 localhost bluetoothd[974]: src/plugin.c:init_plugin() System does not support micp plugin
Apr 17 08:47:44 localhost bluetoothd[974]: src/plugin.c:init_plugin() System does not support ccp plugin
Apr 17 08:47:44 localhost bluetoothd[974]: src/plugin.c:init_plugin() System does not support csip plugin
Apr 17 08:47:44 localhost bluetoothd[974]: src/plugin.c:init_plugin() System does not support asha plugin
Apr 17 08:47:44 localhost bluetoothd[974]: Bluetooth management interface 1.23 initialized
~

Any help here?

2

Bluetooth is flaky at times, especially on dual boot systems.
Bluetooth adapters are typically on the USB bus, check:

lsusb

and see if anything related to BT shows up.
Then check if it is blocked one way or another:

sudo rfkill list

If it is blocked (software or hardware) there should be a key / switch / BIOS setting to enable it.
If nothing works, maybe booting into Win, checking that everything is OK there and rebooting back to Tumbleweed might work.
If still no joy, powering off, waiting a few minutes and powering on again might help as well.

And, BTW, welcome to the openSUSE Forums!

3

I just went through this on a laptop. That turned out to be the firmware was missing. Actually, it was there, but the name was not the same as Tumbleweed was looking for.

You didn’t say what you’re hardware is.

Is it a laptop? You may have to use the FN key and a F key to activate Bluetooth.

If it’s a desktop, tell us what it is, or the model of motherboard. There’s many things that can cause issues depending on the hardware.

4

Please post the output of inxi as below, this is how it looks for me:

$ inxi -E -x
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Cambridge Silicon Radio Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) driver: btusb
    v: 0.8 type: USB bus-ID: 1-1:2
  Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: 04:1A:9D:DA:41:23
    bt-v: 4.0 lmp-v: 6
5

Alright, so this happened,

I booted into Windows, checked my Bluetooth if it was on, and it was on.

So I booted back into Tumbleweed and surprisingly it works.

Rebooting the system helps. and as @OrsoBruno said, “Bluetooth is flaky at times, especially on dual boot systems.”, It’s necessary to reboot and see if something works.

Thanks for your help.
Cheers.

6

Its a desktop.

Optiplex 3070 Micro

7

This topic was automatically closed 7 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.