rfkill lists my Bluetooth as soft-blocked:
root@zeljava:~# rfkill --output-all
ID TYPE DEVICE TYPE-DESC SOFT HARD
3 wlan phy1 Wireless LAN unblocked unblocked
4 bluetooth hci0 Bluetooth blocked unblocked
Running rfkill unblock all or rfkill unblock bluetooth seems to be unable to turn it on:
root@zeljava:~# rfkill unblock bluetooth
root@zeljava:~# rfkill unblock all
root@zeljava:~# rfkill --output-all
ID TYPE DEVICE TYPE-DESC SOFT HARD
3 wlan phy1 Wireless LAN unblocked unblocked
4 bluetooth hci0 Bluetooth blocked unblocked
I'm running Ubuntu 21.04 on a Dell Inspiron 5379 laptop. Network adapter is a Qualcomm device:
01:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [168c:003e] (rev 32)
Subsystem: Dell QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [1028:0310]
Kernel driver in use: ath10k_pci
Kernel modules: ath10k_pci
root@zeljava:~# lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 04f3:2494 Elan Microelectronics Corp. Touchscreen
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0cf3:e007 Qualcomm Atheros Communications
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:58f3 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Integrated_Webcam_HD
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
root@zeljava:~# lsusb -t
/: Bus 02.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci_hcd/6p, 5000M
/: Bus 01.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci_hcd/12p, 480M
|__ Port 5: Dev 2, If 3, Class=Video, Driver=uvcvideo, 480M
|__ Port 5: Dev 2, If 1, Class=Video, Driver=uvcvideo, 480M
|__ Port 5: Dev 2, If 2, Class=Video, Driver=uvcvideo, 480M
|__ Port 5: Dev 2, If 0, Class=Video, Driver=uvcvideo, 480M
|__ Port 7: Dev 3, If 0, Class=Wireless, Driver=btusb, 12M
|__ Port 7: Dev 3, If 1, Class=Wireless, Driver=btusb, 12M
|__ Port 8: Dev 4, If 0, Class=Human Interface Device, Driver=usbhid, 12M
I've checked the BIOS and Bluetooth is enabled. The only apparently-related messaged I could find on dmesg is:
[ 3639.167592] Bluetooth: hci0: unexpected event for opcode 0x0c03
[ 3639.169588] Bluetooth: hci0: unexpected event for opcode 0x1003
Kernel version:
root@zeljava:~# uname -a
Linux zeljava 5.11.0-37-generic #41-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 20 16:39:20 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Any suggestions on how I could remove this soft block?
EDIT:
I've ended up buying a new adapter:
vitor@zeljava:~$ lspci -knn | grep Net -A3
01:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX210/AX211/AX411 160MHz [8086:2725] (rev 1a)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX210 160MHz [8086:0024]
Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
Kernel modules: iwlwifi
vitor@zeljava:~$ lsusb -tv
/: Bus 02.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci_hcd/6p, 5000M
ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
/: Bus 01.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci_hcd/12p, 480M
ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
|__ Port 5: Dev 2, If 3, Class=Video, Driver=uvcvideo, 480M
ID 0bda:58f3 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
|__ Port 5: Dev 2, If 1, Class=Video, Driver=uvcvideo, 480M
ID 0bda:58f3 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
|__ Port 5: Dev 2, If 2, Class=Video, Driver=uvcvideo, 480M
ID 0bda:58f3 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
|__ Port 5: Dev 2, If 0, Class=Video, Driver=uvcvideo, 480M
ID 0bda:58f3 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
|__ Port 7: Dev 3, If 0, Class=Wireless, Driver=btusb, 12M
ID 8087:0032 Intel Corp.
|__ Port 7: Dev 3, If 1, Class=Wireless, Driver=btusb, 12M
ID 8087:0032 Intel Corp.
|__ Port 8: Dev 4, If 0, Class=Human Interface Device, Driver=usbhid, 12M
ID 04f3:2494 Elan Microelectronics Corp.
Absolutely no difference. Disabled/enabled bluetooth in the BIOS settings. Tried using connman, setting the Powered property to On using bluez-tools, nothing works so far...
The only processes consuming /dev/rfkill is GNOME:
itor@zeljava:~$ fuser /dev/rfkill
/dev/rfkill: 6359
vitor@zeljava:~$ ps aux | grep 6359
vitor 6359 0.0 0.0 460376 6624 ? Ssl 18:31 0:00 /usr/libexec/gsd-rfkill
vitor 19955 0.0 0.0 11900 2252 pts/0 S+ 19:03 0:00 grep --color=auto 6359
Right now, I might try nuking this install and trying again.
