Broadcom Bluetooth brcm/BCM.hcd firmware not found
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linux (Ubuntu) |
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linux-firmware (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
bluetooth device search not working. But hardware works fine in windows OS
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: bluez 5.46-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-29-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Jan 15 15:14:44 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-06-09 (219 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412)
InterestingModules: rfcomm bnep btusb bluetooth
MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron 3543
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
SourcePackage: bluez
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2018-01-06 (8 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 05/13/2016
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A08
dmi.board.name: 04XW3R
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.
dmi.product.name: Inspiron 3543
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
hciconfig:
hci0: Type: Primary Bus: USB
BD Address: 2C:33:7A:F9:C9:20 ACL MTU: 1021:8 SCO MTU: 64:1
DOWN
RX bytes:8237 acl:0 sco:0 events:1071 errors:0
TX bytes:8678 acl:0 sco:0 commands:926 errors:0
This is caused due to missing Broadcom Bluetooth proprietary firmware image file:
Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: Patch brcm/BCM.hcd not found
This is apparently shipped in the Windows driver package and has to be manually extracted by the user since the licence makes it problematic for Ubuntu redistribute the files.
I understand you may be able to locate and download the correct file that matches the device in the PC and rename it to:
/lib/firmware/ brcm/BCM. hcd
From this github repository:
https:/ /github. com/winterheart /broadcom- bt-firmware