On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 5:43 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, 2016-07-08 at 00:43 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> I have an old Dell Vostro 1500 laptop.  It was running
> Fedora 17 with no problems with the bluetooth mouse I use.
>
> After a fresh install of Fedora 24 Workstation I can't
> get the mouse to reconnect after a boot.  Systemctl
> reports bluetoothd 'Failed to obtain handles for
> "Serviced Changed" characteristic'.  Both blueman-manager
> and blueman-applet report the adapter is off and are
> unable to turn it on.
>
> I can go into bluetoothctl, power on the adapter and
> connect to the mouse.  Things are fine until a reboot.
>
> lshw reports the bluetooth adapter is a Broadcom BCM2045.
>
> Any thoughts on how to get the adapter powered on at boot
> and the mouse auto-reconnected as it nicely did 7 Fedora
> releases ago.
>
> Thanks, Jon

I have a Broadcom BT dongle with roughly the same issues. Years ago I
created a /etc/rc.d/rc.local file containing:

hciconfig hci0 up

For recent Fedoras note that you now have to explicitly enable rc.local
for it to run:

systemctl enable rc-local

I also find the dongle sometimes doesn't power on after returning from
hibernation. Haven't found a fix for that other than keeping an extra
mouse so I can enable it manually.


If is any consolation, my new iMac also requires that I keep a USB mouse
handy for the same reason.  Curiously, the wireless keyboard is generally
(but not always) recognized, but sometimes I have to borrow a USB keyboard
to log in.
 

 
poc



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