Bluetooth Not Working - Beelink EQR

ben79 · March 8, 2025, 3:53pm

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ben79 · March 8, 2025, 3:55pm

Oh, oh! One more very important thing to check, is the bluetooth systemd service enabled and running:

$ sudo systemctl status bluetooth
[sudo] password for ben79: 
● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
    Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/service.d
             └─10-timeout-abort.conf
     Active: active (running) since Wed 2025-03-05 15:57:11 -05; 2 days ago
 Invocation: 32724c5a9fcf44cc93e0c79a302bae53
       Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
   Main PID: 952 (bluetoothd)
     Status: "Running"
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 18258)
     Memory: 2.7M (peak: 3.2M)
        CPU: 89ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service
             └─952 /usr/libexec/bluetooth/bluetoothd

Edit: This command might show what the problem is.

Matt · March 8, 2025, 4:01pm

My output from systemctl status bluetooth:

[mattheww@openmandriva-x8664 ~]$ sudo systemctl status bluetooth
● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
    Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/service.d
             └─10-timeout-abort.conf
     Active: active (running) since Sat 2025-03-08 10:56:53 EST; 2min 37s ago
 Invocation: e7b2fcc5d4ba41e098049f9bdc46ce57
       Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
   Main PID: 13604 (bluetoothd)
     Status: "Running"
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 23396)
     Memory: 848K (peak: 2.4M)
        CPU: 68ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service
             └─13604 /usr/libexec/bluetooth/bluetoothd

Mar 08 10:56:53 openmandriva-x8664 bluetoothd[13604]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.34 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/aptx_l>
Mar 08 10:56:53 openmandriva-x8664 bluetoothd[13604]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.34 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/aptx_l>
Mar 08 10:56:53 openmandriva-x8664 bluetoothd[13604]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.34 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/aptx_l>
Mar 08 10:56:53 openmandriva-x8664 bluetoothd[13604]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.34 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/aptx_l>
Mar 08 10:56:53 openmandriva-x8664 bluetoothd[13604]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.34 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/fastst>
Mar 08 10:56:53 openmandriva-x8664 bluetoothd[13604]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.34 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/fastst>
Mar 08 10:56:53 openmandriva-x8664 bluetoothd[13604]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.34 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink/opus_05
Mar 08 10:56:53 openmandriva-x8664 bluetoothd[13604]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.34 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/opus_05
Mar 08 10:56:53 openmandriva-x8664 bluetoothd[13604]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.34 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink/opus_05_>
Mar 08 10:56:53 openmandriva-x8664 bluetoothd[13604]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.34 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/opus_0

Output of lsmod | grep bluetooth:

[mattheww@openmandriva-x8664 ~]$ lsmod | grep bluetooth
bluetooth             868352  46 btrtl,btmtk,btintel,btbcm,bnep,btusb,rfcomm
rfkill                 40960  10 iwlmvm,bluetooth,cfg80211
ecdh_generic           16384  3 bluetooth,tpm

ben79 · March 8, 2025, 4:18pm

To backtrack a bit my bluetooth device is this:

$ inxi -E
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel AX210 Bluetooth driver: btusb type: USB
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 state: up address: 74:3A:F4:D3:EA:EF bt-v: 5.3

Which is similar to yours. Yours should work.

This is where users need to learn to internet search their problem so you might find something like this:

https://www.baeldung.com/linux/bluetooth-via-terminal

If you work through that you might either get your device paired or find out why it won’t pair.

Otherwise search some more on the internet of go to OM-Chat.

Edit: I use Arch Linux Wiki a good bit to learn information about things:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Bluetooth

rugyada · March 8, 2025, 5:17pm

Yes it had been addressed and fixed.

Do
sudo dnf remove hfsutils
if you still have it

To avoid any kernel-rc being installed by mistake do
sudo sh -c "echo excludepkgs=kernel-rc,kernel-rc-headers >> /etc/dnf/dnf.conf"

Then backup the file in case distro-release updates will overwrite it
sudo cp -r /etc/dnf/dnf.conf /etc/dnf/dnf.conf-bak
or run the command again if needed.

LeeTalbert · March 8, 2025, 6:03pm

Try installing blueman to handle bluetooth connections rather than the built-in plasma tool.

Matt · March 10, 2025, 12:19am

Thank you everyone, and especially @ben79. I appreciate all your time and help. The issue has been fixed. I am not sure which step did it, but it was probably a combination the advice here and all of the research I did on my own. Eventually I did a hard reboot of the system and then it slowly began to recognize my devices.

In addition to this forum, I even used Grok, which led me step by step in learning how to use terminal bluetooth utilities and other things. It was a good education. I hope to stick around with OpenMandriva and this seems like a great community.

eepardaku · March 10, 2025, 2:29am

It is a great place and we’re glad you’re here.

system · April 9, 2025, 2:30am

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