bluetooth in centrino wireless-n 2230

**kazzmir** · April 2nd, 2013

I have the pangolin performance 12.10 laptop with an Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2230

Code:

02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 2230 (rev c4)

Supposedly this controller has built-in bluetooth support but I can't figure out how to enable it. When I plug a usb bluetooth dongle in the dongle works fine. Is there a way to use bluetooth with the builtin adapter?

**isantop** · April 2nd, 2013

What model system do you have? Did you upgrade the card manually? We've never sold a 2230.

**kazzmir** · April 3rd, 2013

Oops, its not a pangolin, its a gazelle. I have not upgraded the card manually.

Model: gazp8
Intel Centrino 1030 - 802.11 b/g/n Wireless LAN + Bluetooth Combo Module

But lspci is reporting that I have a 2230..

**kazzmir** · April 5th, 2013

Bump

**isantop** · April 5th, 2013

You can try pressing Fn+F12. That said, it sounds like you may have a bad or the wrong card.

**kazzmir** · April 5th, 2013

Uhm, haha wow! Pressing Fn+F12 worked!

This just appeared

Code:

$ dmesg | tail
[680667.431287] usb 3-4: new full-speed USB device number 67 using xhci_hcd
[680667.561825] usb 3-4: New USB device found, idVendor=8087, idProduct=07da
[680667.561830] usb 3-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0

And bluetooth shows up in rfkill

Code:

$ rfkill list
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
4: hci1: Bluetooth
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no