Bluetooth Broadcom bcm43142

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pkagiantas
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Bluetooth Broadcom bcm43142

Post by pkagiantas » 2016/08/14 12:18:02

has anyone managed to make it work ?

i have wifi with wl-kmod but no bluetooth functionality even if the network manager recognizes that the laptop has bluetooth
im trying to pair a razer orochi mouse and i cant get bluetooth to work at all !

its an HP 250 G4 with Centos 7 Desktop, kernel-3.10.0-327.28.2.el7.x86_64

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lsusb
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0a5c:216d Broadcom Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0c45:651b Microdia 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
any help would be very useful

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Re: Bluetooth Broadcom bcm43142

Post by toracat » 2016/08/15 15:18:32

Looks like your hardware "Device 003: ID 0a5c:216d Broadcom Corp." is not supported by the kernel. Unfortunately, even the latest mainline kernel, currently at 4.7.0, (as seen in ELRepo's kernel-ml) does not have the driver for that.
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