I have just installed Ubuntu for the first time
I cant get my bluetooth to turn on.
I ran a couple of commands and these are the results:
$ sudo rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: brcmwl-0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
2: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
$ sudo rfkill unblock bluetooth
$ sudo rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: brcmwl-0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
2: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
$ dmesg | grep Blue
[ 16.575002] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.21
[ 16.575014] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 16.575016] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 16.575018] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 16.575021] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[ 19.060274] Bluetooth: hci0 command 0x1001 tx timeout
[ 27.056612] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: Reading local version info failed (-110)
[ 27.061648] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: chip id 70
[ 27.077663] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM43142A
[ 27.077667] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM (001.001.011) build 0000
[ 27.535077] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: Patch brcm/BCM.hcd not found
[ 34.933334] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[ 34.933337] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[ 34.933341] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
$ lspci -knn | grep Net -A2; lsusb
04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 802.11b/g/n [14e4:4365] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company BCM43142 802.11b/g/n [103c:804a]
Kernel driver in use: wl
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 138a:0050 Validity Sensors, Inc. Swipe Fingerprint Sensor
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 064e:930a Suyin Corp.
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0a5c:216d Broadcom Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
BCM.hcd
file for your adapter. – Pilot6 Jan 29 '17 at 16:11