So after I tried Spessotto's suggestion, I left it, then tried blacklisting btusb (/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist), rebooted, removed btusb from blacklist, removed asus.conf, rebooted, once again entered the command
# echo "options asus_nb_wmi wapf=4" > /etc/modprobe.d/asus.conf Rebooted... and, suddenly, # hciconfig -a hci0: Type: BR/EDR Bus: USB BD Address: EC:0E:C4:69:DA:C2 ACL MTU: 1021:4 SCO MTU: 128:2 DOWN RX bytes:558 acl:0 sco:0 events:28 errors:0 TX bytes:355 acl:0 sco:0 commands:28 errors:0 Features: 0xff 0xff 0x8f 0xfe 0xdb 0xff 0x5b 0x87 Packet type: DM1 DM3 DM5 DH1 DH3 DH5 HV1 HV2 HV3 Link policy: RSWITCH HOLD SNIFF PARK Link mode: SLAVE ACCEPT # hciconfig hci0 up This brought bluetooth up... But gnome-bluetooth was not recognizing it. It turned out that I needed to roll back bluez5 to bluez4. I did so and now it's working. So that leaves only the high cpu load. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1220146 Title: Ralink Mediatek 14c3:7630 wi-fi card isn't supported out of the box Status in HWE Next Project: Confirmed Status in HWE Next trusty series: Confirmed Status in The Linux Kernel: Unknown Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “linux” package in Fedora: New Bug description: This device is appearing in some OEM machines, but driver is not yet available in mainline. The driver seems to be present in machines with pre-installed OS, but isn't available on the download-and-install versions! The driver that upstream is working on can be found at https://github.com/lwfinger/mt7630. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hwe-next/+bug/1220146/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp