So after I tried Spessotto's suggestion, I left it, then tried blacklisting btusb (/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist), rebooted, removed btusb from blacklist, removed asus.conf, rebooted, once again entered the command
# hciconfig -a
hci0: Type: BR/EDR Bus: USB
BD Address: EC:0E:C4:69:DA:C2 ACL MTU: 1021:4 SCO MTU: 128:2
DOWN
RX bytes:558 acl:0 sco:0 events:28 errors:0
TX bytes:355 acl:0 sco:0 commands:28 errors:0
Features: 0xff 0xff 0x8f 0xfe 0xdb 0xff 0x5b 0x87
Packet type: DM1 DM3 DM5 DH1 DH3 DH5 HV1 HV2 HV3
Link policy: RSWITCH HOLD SNIFF PARK
Link mode: SLAVE ACCEPT
# hciconfig hci0 up
This brought bluetooth up... But gnome-bluetooth was not recognizing it. It turned out that I needed to roll back bluez5 to bluez4. I did so and now it's working. So that leaves only the high cpu load.
So after I tried Spessotto's suggestion, I left it, then tried blacklisting btusb (/etc/modprobe. d/blacklist) , rebooted, removed btusb from blacklist, removed asus.conf, rebooted, once again entered the command
# echo "options asus_nb_wmi wapf=4" > /etc/modprobe. d/asus. conf
Rebooted... and, suddenly,
# hciconfig -a
hci0: Type: BR/EDR Bus: USB
BD Address: EC:0E:C4:69:DA:C2 ACL MTU: 1021:4 SCO MTU: 128:2
DOWN
RX bytes:558 acl:0 sco:0 events:28 errors:0
TX bytes:355 acl:0 sco:0 commands:28 errors:0
Features: 0xff 0xff 0x8f 0xfe 0xdb 0xff 0x5b 0x87
Packet type: DM1 DM3 DM5 DH1 DH3 DH5 HV1 HV2 HV3
Link policy: RSWITCH HOLD SNIFF PARK
Link mode: SLAVE ACCEPT
# hciconfig hci0 up
This brought bluetooth up... But gnome-bluetooth was not recognizing it. It turned out that I needed to roll back bluez5 to bluez4. I did so and now it's working. So that leaves only the high cpu load.