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g-virus
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 Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2020 10:21 pm Post subject: No bluetooth device on RPi4b Gentoo 64bit |
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Hello everyone!
I cannot use bluetooth on my RPi4 with 2GB RAM since it doesn't exist at all on Linux. hciconfig -a shows nothing, rfkill shows only WiFi device, even lsusb shows the following:
| Code: | Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 2109:3431 VIA Labs, Inc. Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub |
I think the problem with USB because It should list something more than this I guess. But the WiFi works well.
There is Linux 5.6.0-rc5-v8+, bluez is installed as well as kernel modules, bluetooth service is running, but still nothing. Please any ideas, thanks in advance! |
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Jarodiv
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| Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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Did you configure the Kernel for Bluetooth and have you installed the required firmware?
The Gentoo on my Pi4 is 64-Bit but the following steps should be the same (inspired by that wiki page -> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi_3_64_bit_Install#Install_Bluetooth_firmware):
| Code: | # emerge --ask --verbose sys-kernel/linux-firmware
# mkdir /etc/firmware
# wget --directory-prefix=/etc/firmware https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RPi-Distro/bluez-firmware/master/broadcom/BCM43430A1.hcd
# wget --output-document /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.clm_blob https://github.com/RPi-Distro/firmware-nonfree/raw/master/brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.clm_blob
# wget --output-document /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.txt https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/plain/brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.raspberrypi,4-model-b.txt
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For me that already was enough to at least see the device. |
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 8:01 pm Post subject: |
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g-virus,
Bluetooth data is on one of the serial ports.
Even though WiFi and Bluetooth share the same RF parts, the backends are separate.
WiFI is SDIO (like a microSD card)
Bluetooth is a serial link (RS232)
The Bluetooth firmware is loaded over the serial link.
-- edit --
This script should work on the Pi3 or P4 but 921600 is not fast enough for audio over bluetooth but its all the Pi3 could do.
The Pi4 can go faster. Its only one line, try it by hand.
/etc/local.d/bluetooth.start
| Code: | #!/bin/bash
# Having openrc start the bluetooth service is required
# but not suffcient to have Raspberry Pi bluetooth working
# bluez needs some patches they are in /etc/portage/patches
# so if you want to rebuild bluez, you can :)
# Bluetooth is attcached to /dev/ttyAMA0 so attach it and
# load the firmware
/usr/bin/hciattach /dev/ttyAMA0 bcm43xx 921600 noflow -
# thats enough to have it work for some things.
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