Bluetooth not working with Ralink RT3290

Question

Just got a WiFi adapter for my laptop and WiFi is working correctly in elementary OS.But Bluetooth is not showing and shows as if there are no Bluetooth adapters installed.

Output of sudo lshw -c network :

  *-network               
       description: Wireless interface
       product: RT3290 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe
       vendor: Ralink corp.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
       logical name: wlan1
       version: 00
       serial: b8:76:3f:53:8f:99
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt2800pci driverversion=3.19.0-59-generic firmware=0.37 ip=192.168.1.3 latency=0 link=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
       resources: irq:16 memory:f0210000-f021ffff
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 05
       serial: 84:34:97:89:f6:4e
       size: 10Mbit/s
       capacity: 100Mbit/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half firmware=rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s
       resources: irq:36 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:f0004000-f0004fff memory:f0000000-f0003fff

Answer 1

According to this site, HP Pavilion g7-2268wm does not have Bluetooth

http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c03487531

I even checked the Windows drivers for the machine and couldn't find anything.

http://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/HP-Pavilion-g7-Notebook-PC-series/5296086/model/5312246

This post claims that you need Kernel 4.4.0 (Xenial) in order to see your bluetooth card. Freya runs on kernel 3.19, if you want to upgrade run this command.

sudo apt-get install --install-recommends linux-generic-lts-xenial xserver-xorg-core-lts-xenial xserver-xorg-lts-xenial xserver-xorg-video-all-lts-xenial xserver-xorg-input-all-lts-xenial libwayland-egl1-mesa-lts-xenial

Once you're done restart your machine and try again.

Answer 2

My friend, there is NO SOLUTIONS to get this particular module (rtbth) work. This is a old-bug problem, with tons of how-to, PPA's and more on...but no one has ever posted a definitive, longterm solution.

I've a HP with RealTek 3290 WiFi+Bluetooth adapter, but only WiFi work out-of-the-box.

Answer 3

I also was facing the same problem and I tried all the solution I could find and still could not solve it, most I was able to reach was that all the Bluetooth devices were showing but still I was unable to connect to any of them.

But I just today finally found something that works and is very easy to install, it is located on github rtbth-dkms.

To Install,

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:blaze/rtbth-dkms
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install rtbth-dkms

and then follow the Init commands below, your BlueTooth will work now, in case of any problem leave a comment, I will be happy to help you.

Usage

# Init
sudo modprobe rtbth
sudo rfkill unblock bluetooth
hcitool dev # check

# Switch off
sudo rfkill block bluetooth

# Switch on
sudo rfkill unblock bluetooth

# Shutdown
sudo pkill -2 rtbt
sudo rmmod rtbth