Bluetooth seems to no work.

[Tech N Gamer]

So the bluetooth seems to not work at all on neither Mint or Elementary OS, on my desktop (which is running Windows) it say's it's an audio device. My phone, which is the Google Pixel, will play music to it and it will play it, however, when I try to transfer something to it, Android says, "Reason: Request can't be handled correctly." And Windows just gives the usual, "Unable to transfer file." shit. I'm new to Linux, so I have no idea what I'm doing or how to get bluetooth to work. BTW, if you suggest a program, can you guide me threw on how to use it?

Edit: It's the Dell Inspiron N4110 14R, specs of the laptop are as follow:

Processor: Intel Core i5-2450M

GPU: Intel Intergrated Graphics 3100

Drive: WD Blue 1TB

RAM: 6GB DDR3

Edited June 17, 2017 by Tech N Gamer
Forgot to add specs.

[SCHISCHKA]

what does lsusb or lspci say about your bluetooth device?

[Tech N Gamer]

2 minutes ago, SCHISCHKA said:

what does lsusb or lspci say about your bluetooth device?

I assume those are commands for Terminal, when I put them in, they say nothing about Bluetooth nor any devices connect via bluetooth.

[SCHISCHKA]

2 minutes ago, Tech N Gamer said:

I assume those are commands for Terminal, when I put them in, they say nothing about Bluetooth nor any devices connect via bluetooth.

bluetooth is usually included in the wifi card of laptops. what does it say about your wifi card?

[Tech N Gamer]

Network: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 1030 [Rainbow Peak] (rev 34)

If that doesn't help much, here is the entire terminal window screenshotted:

[SCHISCHKA]

you need to hit reply or i dont get a notification.

this is the instruction for debian.

https://wiki.debian.org/iwlwifi

Mint tries to do it for you but when Mint fails its just easier just using Debian.

 

[Tech N Gamer]

17 hours ago, SCHISCHKA said:

you need to hit reply or i dont get a notification.

this is the instruction for debian.

https://wiki.debian.org/iwlwifi

Mint tries to do it for you but when Mint fails its just easier just using Debian.

 

It doesn't seem to have worked, that or I did something wrong here:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install firmware-iwlwifi
Ign:1 http://packages.linuxmint.com serena InRelease                           
Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [102 kB]     
Hit:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                        
Hit:5 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                     
Hit:6 http://packages.linuxmint.com serena Release                             
Get:8 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [102 kB]
Get:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [102 kB]     
Get:10 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages [558 kB]
Get:11 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main i386 Packages [541 kB]
Get:12 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 Packages [486 kB]
Get:13 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe i386 Packages [470 kB]
Ign:4 http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian jessie InRelease                 
Hit:14 http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian jessie Release
Get:15 http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian jessie Release.gpg [2,373 B]
Ign:15 http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian jessie Release.gpg
Fetched 2,364 kB in 46s (50.3 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
W: GPG error: http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian jessie Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 8B48AD6246925553  NO_PUBKEY 7638D0442B90D010  NO_PUBKEY CBF8D6FD518E17E1
W: The repository 'http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie Release' is not signed.
N: Data from such a repository can't be authenticated and is therefore potentially dangerous to use.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  firmware-iwlwifi
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 537 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/2,138 kB of archives.
After this operation, 13.6 MB of additional disk space will be used.
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
  firmware-iwlwifi
Install these packages without verification? [y/N] y
(Reading database ... 197567 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../firmware-iwlwifi_0.43_all.deb ...
Unpacking firmware-iwlwifi (0.43) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/firmware-iwlwifi_0.43_all.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-7260-7.ucode', which is also in package linux-firmware 1.157.5
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/firmware-iwlwifi_0.43_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[SCHISCHKA]

ok if you are going to continue using linux mint you do not need to add the debian repos.

you just need to search for the intel driver on mint's repos. Unfortunately Mint does not have good documentation which is one of many reasons I would never use it.

if it is not on mint's repos you can install it manually or install a distribution that does have the drivers.

[noahdvs]

You might need a newer kernel. For Mint, you might be able to use this: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack. I don't know anything about Elementary. If you can't use a newer kernel on Mint and Elementary, you might have to switch to Ubuntu or one of its flavors or you might need to switch to a rolling release distro like Arch/Antergos/Manjaro and openSUSE Tumbleweed.

[Wild Penquin]

From the OP, I gather the bluetooth device is already functioning, as you can play music to it. It is just not advertising all features.

 

Try to type in terminal bluetoothctl. There are several ways to control bluetooth controllers in Linux. You can also try hciconfig if the previous one doesn't work.

 

Changes are you need to enable file transfer (if that is what you are after). How: this depends on your DE. Haven't used Elementary OS for a while. Which flavor of Mint are you using?

[Tech N Gamer]

11 hours ago, Wild Penquin said:

From the OP, I gather the bluetooth device is already functioning, as you can play music to it. It is just not advertising all features.

 

Try to type in terminal bluetoothctl. There are several ways to control bluetooth controllers in Linux. You can also try hciconfig if the previous one doesn't work.

 

Changes are you need to enable file transfer (if that is what you are after). How: this depends on your DE. Haven't used Elementary OS for a while. Which flavor of Mint are you using?

I'm using Mint Cinnamon x64 18.1 if I am correct.

[Wild Penquin]

IIRC Mint it should have a bluetooth tray icon on the bottom right corner (where the other icons are). If not, go to system settings and find bluetooth settings from there.

 

You should be able to configure the computer for other purposes too (things such as file sharing are probably disabled per default for security reasons). It should be quite straigthforward to use.

 

In case you can not find it (and it seems there are few Mint users replying here) try their own forum.

[Tech N Gamer]

42 minutes ago, Wild Penquin said:

IIRC Mint it should have a bluetooth tray icon on the bottom right corner (where the other icons are). If not, go to system settings and find bluetooth settings from there.

 

You should be able to configure the computer for other purposes too (things such as file sharing are probably disabled per default for security reasons). It should be quite straigthforward to use.

 

In case you can not find it (and it seems there are few Mint users replying here) try their own forum.

If the option was in Mint's preferences this thread would of not existed, and I'm new to linux and cannot find anyone with a similar issue. I don't want to have a shit ton of forum accounts either or have them idle long amount of times. And this is the only thing that pops up for bluetooth:

[Wild Penquin]

Wow. It is possible the default Mint desktop really doesn't have any more options.

 

There should be options like pairing, visible / non-visible etc.; and this way you should be able to choose, what kind of abilities you want to choose (per device).

 

I'd go to Mint forums for more help (this is destkop interface and sometimes distribtion specific).