On 18/11/2019, Bret Busby <[email protected]> wrote: > On 18/11/2019, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello dear fellows, >> >> I am new to Trisquel and Linux-libre. Just installed it on my Acer >> TravelMate >> B115-M Laptop and realized, its onboard Bluetooth is not working at all. >> Pity >> :-( That's why I stumbled over this forum thread. However, installing the >> hardware enablement kernel 4.15 >> (https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/update-linux-libre-kernel) didn't help. >> >> Luckily, I found an USB Bluetooth dongle, which is working fine with >> Linux-libre. But I'd like to prefer the usage of the onboard Bluetooth >> chipset. And so I have two questions: >> >> 1. How to determine the chipset of either the onboard and/or the USB >> Bluetooth device? >> 2. Is there a list with compatible hardware for use with Linux-libre? >> >> Depending on the answers to my two questions above, I am considering to >> give >> >> kernel 4.19+ from jxself.org a try. >> >> Thanks in advance and >> best regards >> > > I do not use bluetooth. > > Is lshw available to run? >
Syntax: sudo lshw then scroll up, skimming through the output, looking for bluetooth. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 ....................................................
