Guys can you please help me disable internal bluetooth ?
I’ve tried everything including playing with disabling modules but nothing works for me
My box is behind tv and ir isn’t best solution for me I’m afraid
Got usb BT dongle plugged in but have no idea how to use it ?
Can you please look into my dmesg and lsmd and guide me what need to be done ?
Added lsusb and hciconfig -a in case it’s needed.
Tried to blacklist 8852be module but Bluetooth was still visible after reboot. Hence why I’m looking for a help
I do really badly need Bluetooth working on this box.
Not sure if my dongle isn’t dodgy. It was working with my ubuntu and windows alright.
What is the internal BT device, and what is the USB BT dongle you’re trying to load?
Bluetoothctl allows switching between different BT controllers on the box.
show bluetooth devices - bluetoothctl list
select active bluetooth device - bluetoothctl select <mac-of-bt-device>
Do you know if CE supports the BT chip in your USB dongle? Blacklisting a module prevents that BT device from loading, it doesn’t disable Bluetooth. When you say Bluetooth is still visible after blacklisting, visible how?
Looking at your previous logs the USB dongle uses a barrot 8041a02 chip and shows up as a fake Cambridge Silicon Radio device (it’s a CRS clone).
I don’t know if this chip is supported in CE, searching the forum there are a couple others who mention using these CSR clones and BT not working, but I didn’t see any fixes.
I’ve used a realtek 8761 (rtl8761b) USB dongle with CE. It was recognized without any additional configurations, and they can be found for ~$5.
Try blacklisting btrtl instead. But I don’t think this is necessary. Two BT devices can be enabled, bluetoothctl chooses which is the active BT controller.
it’s one of these (btrtl,btqca,btintel,hci_uart,btbcm,btusb,rfcomm):
bluetooth 1036288 31 btrtl,btqca,btintel,hci_uart,btbcm,btusb,rfcomm
It would help to run lsmod without the USB BT dongle present, it’s hard to tell which of these are being loaded for that. and which for the internal BT.
I was worry if I disable this one the dongle won’t work.
Will leave it for now till I get working dongle and then play again Thanks for your help guys!
Plugged in new dongle I got from ebay and system picked it up without reboot selecting the usb one as default
Happy days! Thanks again guys for your help!