Comment 23 for bug 1502781

Not much more progress it seems... :-((
still the same "no bluetooth adapters found" issue

output is a little changed, obviously:

uname -a yields
Alienware-17-R2 4.3.0-040300-generic #201511020949 SMP Mon Nov 2 14:50:44 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
dmesg | grep -i blue
[ 4.707040] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.20
[ 4.707049] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 4.707051] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 4.707053] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 4.707056] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[ 6.801535] Bluetooth: Patch file not found ar3k/AthrBT_0x00000200.dfu
[ 6.801536] Bluetooth: Loading patch file failed
[ 10.313101] Modules linked in: bbswitch(OE) ath3k binfmt_misc arc4 nls_iso8859_1 x86_pkg_temp_thermal intel_powerclamp coretemp kvm_intel dell_wmi mxm_wmi sparse_keymap nvidia(POE) kvm ath10k_pci ath10k_core crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul ath aesni_intel mac80211 aes_x86_64 lrw gf128mul uvcvideo glue_helper ablk_helper videobuf2_vmalloc hid_multitouch btusb videobuf2_memops cryptd snd_hda_codec_hdmi btrtl videobuf2_core btbcm cfg80211 snd_soc_rt5640 input_leds btintel v4l2_common joydev snd_soc_rl6231 snd_soc_ssm4567 videodev bluetooth snd_soc_core snd_hda_codec_ca0132 media serio_raw snd_compress ac97_bus rtsx_pci_ms snd_hda_intel snd_pcm_dmaengine snd_hda_codec memstick snd_hda_core snd_hwdep mei_me snd_pcm mei shpchp lpc_ich snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event snd_rawmidi snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_timer
[ 11.729089] Modules linked in: bbswitch(OE) ath3k binfmt_misc arc4 nls_iso8859_1 x86_pkg_temp_thermal intel_powerclamp coretemp kvm_intel dell_wmi mxm_wmi sparse_keymap nvidia(POE) kvm ath10k_pci ath10k_core crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul ath aesni_intel mac80211 aes_x86_64 lrw gf128mul uvcvideo glue_helper ablk_helper videobuf2_vmalloc hid_multitouch btusb videobuf2_memops cryptd snd_hda_codec_hdmi btrtl videobuf2_core btbcm cfg80211 snd_soc_rt5640 input_leds btintel v4l2_common joydev snd_soc_rl6231 snd_soc_ssm4567 videodev bluetooth snd_soc_core snd_hda_codec_ca0132 media serio_raw snd_compress ac97_bus rtsx_pci_ms snd_hda_intel snd_pcm_dmaengine snd_hda_codec memstick snd_hda_core snd_hwdep mei_me snd_pcm mei shpchp lpc_ich snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event snd_rawmidi snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_timer
[ 11.966179] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[ 11.966182] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[ 11.966190] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized

lsmod |grep blue
bluetooth 512000 10 bnep,ath3k,btbcm,btrtl,btusb,btintel

lsusb shows:
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0cf3:3004 Atheros Communications, Inc. AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0

Not quite clear what to do...
while i am at it, the headphones don't work either... ;-p
looks like i am not the only one and extensive google didn't help - all solutions didn't seem to work for me.

have a nice week-end all.
thomas