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dmesg | grep -i bluetooth is giving this output

[   31.384146] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.17
[   31.384170] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager   initialized
[   31.384180] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[   31.384184] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[   31.384196] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[   31.500587] Bluetooth: can't load firmware, may not work correctly
[   33.506073] Bluetooth: hci0 command 0x1003 tx timeout

and in the last

[ 5703.089302] Workqueue: hci0 hci_power_on [bluetooth]
[ 5703.089347]  [<ffffffffa0534bd5>] hci_dev_do_open+0x275/0x760      [bluetooth]
[ 5703.089356]  [<ffffffffa05356b0>] hci_power_on+0x40/0x180 [bluetooth]
[ 5703.089388] Bluetooth: can't load firmware, may not work correctly
[ 5705.093470] Bluetooth: hci0 command 0x1003 tx timeout

rfkill list output :-

10: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no

lsusb output:-

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:8000 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 003: ID 064e:930b Suyin Corp. 
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0a5c:216d Broadcom Corp. 
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

what can i do to get bluetooth working? it cannot be discovered by other devices and it cannot discover other devices.

Debajyoti Chatterjee
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I suggest to install 3.19 kernel by

sudo apt-get install linux-generic-lts-vivid

And then follow the GUIDE to obtain, convert and install firmware.

It is not legal to distribute the firmware.

But I found a newer driver HERE.

New devices have been added and firmware files are newer.

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