This is also happening for me: frapell@padme:~$ dmesg |grep -i bluet [ 12.692409] thinkpad_acpi: rfkill switch tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: radio is unblocked [ 12.760442] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.16 [ 12.760469] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized [ 12.760477] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized [ 12.760479] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized [ 12.760489] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized [ 12.778260] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3 [ 12.778265] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast [ 12.778274] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized [ 12.801231] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized [ 12.801245] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized [ 12.801247] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11 [ 13.119271] Bluetooth: can't load firmware, may not work correctly
frapell@padme:~$ rfkill list 0: tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 1: tpacpi_wwan_sw: Wireless WAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 2: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 3: hci0: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no syslog output when I try to initiate discovery: Apr 2 13:09:46 padme bluetoothd[807]: Discovery session 0x7f63e6177e90 with :1.57 activated Apr 2 13:09:46 padme bluetoothd[807]: hci0: Start Discovery (0x0023) failed: Not Powered (0x0f) lsusb: Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0a5c:21e6 Broadcom Corp. BCM20702 Bluetooth 4.0 [ThinkPad] Computer is a Thinkpad X1 Carbon frapell@padme:~$ uname -a Linux padme 3.11.0-19-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 11 18:48:34 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Ubuntu 13.10, was working fine in previous versions of Ubuntu "sudo rfkill unblock bluetooth" does nothing for me -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1242079 Title: 13.10 Bluetooth: can't load firmware, may not work correctly To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1242079/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs