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I need to add bluetooth to my desktop Ubuntu machine, running 16.04. Do I need to buy a specific USB-adapter for driver-support, or can I go pickup basically anything, and it should have support and work?
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A well-trod path for this is already on the Ubuntu wiki:
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I've had a problem with getting Bluetooth audio (well any bluetooth connection) to work with Ubuntu 16:04 on my HP Envy 17 which runs a Broadcom Limited BCM4352 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [14e4:43b1] (rev 03).
After a lot of searching over the last two years, I had a clue in that there was a missing firmware driver error:
$ dmesg grep bluetooth
bluetooth hci0: Direct firmware load for brcm/BCM20702A1-0a5c-21fb.hcd failed with error -2
so it was just a matter of tracking down the missing piece of firmware and copying into /lib/firmware/brcm/ which I found at github:
and now it works fine!
AlanAlan