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I was not able to detect Bluetooth devices on my Toshiba Satellite, I followed this answer. I am now able to connect to bluetooth devices but when I play music it is jerky and lags, sometimes it even disconnects.

Here is the output of lspci -knn | grep Net -A2; lsusb

07:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM43142 802.11b/g/n [14e4:4365] (rev 01)
    Subsystem: XAVi Technologies Corp. BCM43142 802.11b/g/n [1b9a:3002]
    Kernel driver in use: wl

As my chip cannot be found on the github given in the answer I used this driver : BCM43142A0-0930-0225.hcd because dmesg | grep -i 'firmware load' was mentionning this version.

Is there a way to correct this issue ?

Output of lsusb

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:8001 Intel Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 04f2:b446 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd 
Bus 002 Device 010: ID 0930:0225 Toshiba Corp. 
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 045e:07fd Microsoft Corp. Nano Transceiver 1.1
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
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It is unlikely that this problem can be fixed, because bluetooth share the same 2.4 GHz band with Wi-Fi. And Broadcom proprietary driver doesn't have an option to toggle wireless coexistence. But you can try.

The github repo is 3 years old. You can try to find more recent Windows drivers and get firmware from there.

See THIS ANSWER for instructions. Links to Windows drivers may be old too, but you can search for some more recent bundle, or extract the firmware from an installed Windows system.

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  • You are right for the first part of your answer, when I desactivate the wifi it is not jerky anymore. Will try the rest of your answer. – Arthur Aug 24 '19 at 10:45
  • If you are unsuccessful, I can suggest to change the wireless adapter to something else. – Pilot6 Aug 24 '19 at 10:48
  • Thanks for the help ! What do you mean by something else ? – Arthur Aug 24 '19 at 10:51
  • Some other built-in wireless adapter. You can buy and replace it, if your laptop BIOS doesn't have a whitelist. This will fix the BT and enable 5GHz wireless band. QCA or Intel work well on linux. – Pilot6 Aug 24 '19 at 10:53
  • So I have been unsuccessful finding a newer driver, at least I know what is going on and how to prevent it from happening with my current configuration. Will be attentive to the wifi adapter next time I buy a laptop ! – Arthur Aug 24 '19 at 11:44