Bluetooth not working on Fedora 35

In a quick look around the web, I didn’t find any definitive statement about bluetooth channel usage and I personally don’t know of any programs to discover it, although I’m sure they’re out there.

From what I’ve read, because bluetooth sits at the “low-end” of 2.4ghz, selecting a higher channel would likely be the best. Now, if you’re already using a 5ghz wifi connection for this device, I’m lost because everything I found indicates there shouldn’t be any channel interference there.

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Hey @bond, just following up to see if changing the channel worked…

I use this internet service provider named, “Wordlink”. The annoying thing about this ISP is that they don’t allow their user to login into the router and modify the configs according to our needs. So every little change I need to do has to go through by emailing them.

I’m changing my internet subscription to 150Mbps along with a 5Ghz router. Let’s see if it makes any difference.

Oof, that sucks; although, the 5ghz router should fix your issue. :slightly_smiling_face:

Yes, indeed. Now I’m using 5Ghz. Internet speed has improved since both wifi and Bluetooth are not colliding with each other.

hello please help me fix my bluetooth. I tried above commands but none did work.
I recently installed fedora 36 and i am new to linux everything is working but my bluetooth is not and cant even toggle . I have tried everything on the internet and still am unable to find solution. Please help im very frustrated

@icetmzz Please open a new thread for this because this one is about Fedora 35 while you already work with Fedora 36. Also, the thread is as of January, which means that there are a lot of software updates and kernels in between.

When opening a new thread, you should also mention what Fedora installation media you were using for installation. I assume you installed with the “normal” Fedora Workstation Live image? If you are not sure, add the link to the Fedora image you were downloading for installation.

Also, check if you have bluetooth for gnome (which seems to be your graphical user interface) installed: open a terminal and then enter sudo dnf install gnome-bluetooth → if not already installed, install it, then reboot to ensure that it is active, and then try again. Normally, this should be installed by default, but I only checked it with the normal live image.

Also, when opening the thread, add the output of the following commands:
lspci | grep uetooth
lsusb | grep uetooth

This will show us which bluetooth hardware you have. This will help us to check if your hardware is supported or not.

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i used rufus to make the usb bootable and installed fedora 36 image from fedora.org .

And
lspci | grep uetooth
lsusb | grep uetooth

this codes had no results

Sorry to necrobump, but unloading and reloading the kernel module did the trick:

sudo rmmod btusb
sudo modprobe btusb
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Sylvain,

Thanks so much for this, made an account just to confirm this fixed my issue (bluetooth not loading or able to be turned on after apx. 1 out of every 2 startups). after trying all of the other steps listed (rfkill, etc.) in this thread and others.

Worked instantly after running both commands though I suppose I will have to do this manually when the bluetooth kernal module fails to load correctly. Much better than restarting and love fedora otherwise, ty!!!

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I’m having this exact issue and the rmod/modprobe solution works for me but it’s required on every restart. I don’t have a Windows partition to turn it on in there, as OP did. Any way to replicate that behaviour through Fedora?
Thank you