Saturday, July 19, 2014

Fixing bluetooth on Dell 1300 laptop running Xubuntu 14.01

Last week I got tired of running the XFCE spin of Fedora 20 on my Dell Inspiron 1300 laptop (Pentium M, 2GB memory).  This is my favorite laptop because I like the solid keyboard.  It runs Linux and it is real snappy.

The XFCE spin of Fedora 20 installed without any need for tweaking the OS.  Unfortunately, Xubuntu 14.02 needed some help.  The Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller was not recognized at first.  The cause of this was it was blacklisted in the /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf file.  The following line was commented out and a reboot made the wireless work as expected.

# blacklist bcm43xx

The second problem that needed to be fixed was getting the USB bluetooth to connect to a paired device.  This proved to be a bit more work to figure out but the combination of the following three items resulted in being able to connect to a paired device.


    1. Install pulseaudio-module-bluetooth package.
    2. Replace the contents of  /etc/bluetooth/audio.conf with:

      [General]Enable=Source,Media
      Disable=Socket
      [Headset]
      HFP=false
      MaxConnected=1
      FastConnectable=false
      [A2DP]
      SBCSources=1
      MPEG12Sources=0

    3. Every boot I must run the following command:

      sudo pactl load-module module-bluetooth-discover


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