Bluetooth Dongle appearing, but not working in Ubuntu 22.04

Question

I've connected my Bluetooth dongle on Windows and it works fine on Windows. Yet, when I open Ubuntu (using dual-boot) it isn't working I tried answers on askUbuntu but nothing works.

Here are some commands I run and their outputs:

lsusb:

Bus 002 Device 006: ID 0a5c:5800 Broadcom Corp. BCM5880 Secure Applications Processor
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 04f2:1125 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd Asus Keyboard
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0000:3825   USB OPTICAL MOUSE
Bus 002 Device 007: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 1bcf:2802 Sunplus Innovation Technology Inc. Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_FHD
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

sudo dmesg | grep -i bluetooth:

[  926.303205] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.22
[  926.303245] NET: Registered PF_BLUETOOTH protocol family
[  926.303247] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[  926.303254] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[  926.303256] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[  926.303262] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[  926.324145] Bluetooth: hci0: CSR: Unbranded CSR clone detected; adding workarounds and force-suspending once...
[  926.324156] Bluetooth: hci0: CSR: Couldn't suspend the device for our Barrot 8041a02 receive-issue workaround
[  926.324160] Bluetooth: hci0: HCI Delete Stored Link Key command is advertised, but not supported.
[  926.324163] Bluetooth: hci0: HCI Set Event Filter command not supported.
[  926.453334] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[  926.453340] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[  926.453344] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
[  928.412762] Bluetooth: hci0: Opcode 0x c5a failed: -110
[  928.412775] Bluetooth: hci0: command 0x0c5a tx timeout

rfkill list:

0: phy0: Wireless LAN
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no
1: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no
2: hci0: Bluetooth
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no

hcitool dev:

Devices:

bluetoothctl:

Agent registered
[bluetooth]# power on
No default controller available

grep . /sys/bus/usb/devices/[0-9]*/power/control:

/sys/bus/usb/devices/1-1.5/power/control:auto
/sys/bus/usb/devices/1-1/power/control:auto
/sys/bus/usb/devices/2-1.1/power/control:auto
/sys/bus/usb/devices/2-1.2/power/control:on
/sys/bus/usb/devices/2-1.4/power/control:on
/sys/bus/usb/devices/2-1.8/power/control:auto
/sys/bus/usb/devices/2-1/power/control:auto

I also tried this, I don't know why but I don't have permissions: sudo echo on > /sys/bus/usb/devices/2-1/power/control:

bash: /sys/bus/usb/devices/2-1/power/control: Permission denied

sudo hciconfig hci0 up:

Can't init device hci0: Connection timed out (110)

I can provide more information if it is needed.

Answer 1

This is a partial answer

Background:

Until yesterday, I had been using Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with a Plugable Broadcom-based Bluetooth dongle; it was working perfectly until I installed 22.04 LTS today, and now I am getting major problems very much along the lines that other 22.04 users have reported as well as the OP here.

I have tried everything that had been posted about work-arounds etc. to no avail. My dongle manufacturer (Plugable) had a download for the missing firmware file, so I tried that and still nothing.

What [partially] worked:

I went to the GitHub page for Broadcom, and there was an updated firmware there (handily in a Deb package file) that I downloaded, and it worked! You just need to copy the firmware file for your particular device/chipset into the /lib/firmware folder (mine was a folder within that firmware folder) and reboot. I could now pair the keyboard and mouse and no error messages about the firmware in DMESG, but the devices only work for about 10 minutes before I get timeout messages in DMESG from the devices, and eventually the Bluetooth locks up completely and needs a reboot.

I have read elsewhere that if you disable the Bluetooth power saving that will stop the timeouts and prevent the lock-up, so if someone knows how to do that we may have a complete solution. Again, sorry this is only a partial solution, but I think if the power saving issue can be fixed, and you get the same success as me from downloading a missing/outdated firmware from GitHub for your chipset, then this could be a fix. I hope this helps others who are suffering the same frustrations.

Example DMESG errors showing device timeouts and then the 'failed to resubmit' is when the adapter itself stops responding:

[ 523.388039] Bluetooth: hci0: command 0x200c tx timeout

[ 525.403978] Bluetooth: hci0: command 0x2005 tx timeout

[ 527.419850] Bluetooth: hci0: command 0x200b tx timeout

[ 529.435976] Bluetooth: hci0: command 0x200c tx timeout

[ 658.018739] Bluetooth: hci0: urb 000000005016cda9 failed to resubmit (113)

[ 658.018774] Bluetooth: hci0: urb 000000006b705fe6 failed to resubmit (113)

[ 658.019822] Bluetooth: hci0: urb 00000000b1c332e8 failed to resubmit (113)

[ 1130.665552] Bluetooth: hci0: urb 00000000d82d69cd failed to resubmit (113)

[ 1130.665587] Bluetooth: hci0: urb 000000006b70d305 failed to resubmit (113)