Hi,
About a dozen times per day, my Bluetooth mouse stops working. I can't
connect manually in Settings > Bluetooth. If I merely turn off the
WiFi radio (Settings > Network > Wi-Fi change from On to Off) and then
click the mouse button, it reconnects and works normally.
With kernels 4.6 and older this ridiculousness was ridiculously
tolerated (in that I continue to use Fedora slightly annoyed rather
than use macOS where this problem does not ever occur with the same
hardware). But with kernel 4.7rc7 this power cycling of WiFi doesn't
work anymore, now I have to reboot.
So the question is, does anyone have any idea how to get more details
debugging information on what appears to be a conflict between WiFi
and Bluetooth? Upstream GNOME bluetooth maintainer says it's a kernel
bug. But there's no meaningful kernel messages at all while this is
happening.
Here's the bug I've filed against the kernel, if anyone has
suggestions on improving the report that'd be great. Or heck, maybe a
solution to the problem, that'd be even better.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136221
In ancient times, I remember even Apple had problems negotiating WiFi
and Bluetooth since I guess both are on 2.4GHz and would conflict with
each other. Maybe the work around is to use the proprietary WiFi
driver instead of b43.
--
Chris Murphy