Bluetooth not working in 13.10 64-bit

[gore-amit]

I have installed Ubuntu 13.10 64-bit on Acer E1-530 laptop.
After ethernet not working, this is second things i have discovered.
Bluetooth does neither detect or gets discovered from any hardware

-Aspire-E1-530:~$ dmesg | grep Bluetooth
[ 10.754836] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.16
[ 10.754862] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 10.754870] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 10.754872] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 10.754877] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[ 15.693465] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[ 15.693478] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[ 15.693480] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11
[ 15.924230] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[ 15.924234] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[ 15.924280] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized

None of my 3 phones are detecting it.

-Aspire-E1-530:~$ hciconfig --all
hci0: Type: BR/EDR Bus: USB
BD Address: A4B:30:7D:3E:F7 ACL MTU: 1022:8 SCO MTU: 183:5
UP RUNNING PSCAN ISCAN
RX bytes:1781 acl:0 sco:0 events:179 errors:0
TX bytes:2907 acl:0 sco:0 commands:158 errors:0
Features: 0xff 0xfe 0x0d 0xfe 0xd8 0x7f 0x7b 0x8f
Packet type: DM1 DM3 DM5 DH1 DH3 DH5 HV1 HV2 HV3
Link policy: RSWITCH HOLD SNIFF
Link mode: SLAVE ACCEPT
Name: 'ubuntu-0'
Class: 0x6e0100
Service Classes: Networking, Rendering, Capturing, Audio, Telephony
Device Class: Computer, Uncategorized
HCI Version: (0x7) Revision: 0x3101
LMP Version: (0x7) Subversion: 0x1
Manufacturer: Atheros Communications, Inc. (69)

Applet shows Bluetooth "on" and visibility set to "on" but neither finding or pairing

[varunendra]

Try installing "blueman" package which is a relatively more capable GUI bluetooth manager than the default one. The default one sometimes shows up as "On" even though it is physically not.

If blueman doesn't help, please post the outputs of -

lsusb
usb-devices

While posting the outputs, please use 'Code' tags. It preserves the formatting of the outputs and makes them more readable. Please follow the "Using Code Tags" link in my signature to see how.

[gore-amit]

-Aspire-E1-530:~$ lsusb
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 004: ID 04f2:b3f6 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd 
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04ca:300b Lite-On Technology Corp. 
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
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

[gore-amit]

attaching output of command.

[varunendra]

Okay, the device is recognized and the driver is loaded.

Now as a guess shot, please try -

echo -n "0000:00:1a.0" | sudo tee /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ehci_hcd/unbind
echo -n "0000:00:1a.0" | sudo tee /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ehci_hcd/bind

Keep a gap of about 4-6 seconds between the above two commands. If you get an error, like "No such file or directory", or if the trick doesn't work, post back the outputs of -

lspci | grep -i usb
ls -l /sys/bus/pci/drivers/e*/

[gore-amit]

I got "tee: /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ehci_hcd/unbind: No such file or directory" error message

-Aspire-E1-530:~$ lspci | grep -i usb
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04)
-Aspire-E1-530:~$ ls -l /sys/bus/pci/drivers/e*/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    0 Jan 10 05:17 0000:00:1a.0 -> ../../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    0 Jan 10 05:17 0000:00:1d.0 -> ../../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0
--w------- 1 root root 4096 Jan 10 05:17 bind
--w------- 1 root root 4096 Jan 10 05:17 new_id
--w------- 1 root root 4096 Jan 10 05:17 remove_id
--w------- 1 root root 4096 Jan 10 05:17 uevent
--w------- 1 root root 4096 Jan 10 05:17 unbind

[varunendra]

-Aspire-E1-530:~$ ls -l /sys/bus/pci/drivers/e*/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    0 Jan 10 05:17 0000:00:1a.0 -> ../../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    0 Jan 10 05:17 0000:00:1d.0 -> ../../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0
--w------- 1 root root 4096 Jan 10 05:17 bind
--w------- 1 root root 4096 Jan 10 05:17 new_id
--w------- 1 root root 4096 Jan 10 05:17 remove_id
--w------- 1 root root 4096 Jan 10 05:17 uevent
--w------- 1 root root 4096 Jan 10 05:17 unbind

So the highlighted parts tell us that the path is there, just the last folder name is not ehci_hcd, but something similar (since e* covers it). Maybe just ehci? Check with -

ls /sys/bus/pci/drivers

..and replace "ehci_hcd" in the unbind command with whatever name comes up starting with 'e'.

Please try the change and post back the result.

PS:
Just for your understanding of what we are trying here, we are detaching the particular bus (which I believe the bluetooth adapter is on) from the "ehci_hcd" driver which is a USB2 controller driver. The second (...bind) command reattaches the driver with the bus, thus simulating a 'USB reset' (or logical unplug - replug of the bluetooth device).

[gore-amit]

-Aspire-E1-530:~$ ls -lrt /sys/bus/pci/drivers
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan  8 09:58 sdhci-pci
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan  8 09:58 ahci
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan  8 09:58 tg3
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan  8 09:58 mei_me
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan  8 09:58 lpc_ich
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan  8 09:58 ath9k
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan  8 09:58 i915
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan  8 09:58 snd_hda_intel
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan  8 09:58 parport_pc
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan 10 05:17 ehci-pci
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan 10 14:55 xhci_hcd
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan 10 14:55 xen-platform-pci
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan 10 14:55 virtio-pci
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan 10 14:55 uhci_hcd
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan 10 14:55 tsi721
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan 10 14:55 serial
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan 10 14:55 pcieport
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan 10 14:55 pata_sis
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan 10 14:55 ohci-pci
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan 10 14:55 langwell_gpio
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan 10 14:55 ioapic
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan 10 14:55 imsttfb
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan 10 14:55 ata_piix
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan 10 14:55 ata_generic
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan 10 14:55 asiliantfb
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan 10 14:55 agpgart-via
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan 10 14:55 agpgart-intel

I replaced ehci_hcd with ehci-pci and got this:

-Aspire-E1-530:~$ echo -n "0000:00:1a.0" | sudo tee /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ehci-pci/unbind
0000:00:1a.0tee: /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ehci-pci/unbind: No such device

[varunendra]

-Aspire-E1-530:~$ echo -n "0000:00:1a.0" | sudo tee /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ehci-pci/unbind
0000:00:1a.0
tee: /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ehci-pci/unbind: No such device

Interesting. Could you please browse to that directory (/sys/bus/pci/drivers/ehci-pci/) and see if both the items - the unbind/bind files and "0000:00:1a.0" link are there? If they are, I'm not sure why unbind says there is no such device (the message is from the unbind file, and what it says "not found" is the "0000:00:1a.0" shortcut which represents a device).

We can try a slightly different approach, but this one doesn't make sense to me.

[gore-amit]

Thanks Varun for all the help.
Just to make it clear, this laptop by default came with a linux flavor. I formatted and installed Ubuntu 13.10 on it.
Out of box neither bluetooth or ethernet is working. Isit to do with the kernel ? Currently it is 3.11.0-15-generic.

Now to answer your question.
Yes there are all two files and a link are available under the /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ehci-pci/ directory

-Aspire-E1-530:~$ ls -lrt /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ehci-pci/
total 0
--w------- 1 root root 4096 Jan 10 05:17 uevent
--w------- 1 root root 4096 Jan 10 05:17 remove_id
--w------- 1 root root 4096 Jan 10 05:17 new_id
--w------- 1 root root 4096 Jan 10 05:17 bind
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    0 Jan 10 05:17 0000:00:1d.0 -> ../../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0
--w------- 1 root root 4096 Jan 10 15:00 unbind