Bluetooth on Ubuntu 16.04

I have installed Ubuntu 16.04 on my ASUS S200e laptop. Everything is working except the bluetooth - I cannot get my mouse connected.

When I try to open Blueman, I get:

"Bluez daemon not running"

When I run lspci -knn | grep Net -A2; lsusb output is:

02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM43142 802.11b/g/n [14e4:4365] (rev 01) Subsystem: AzureWave BCM43142 802.11b/g/n [1a3b:2107] Kernel driver in use: wl
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 03eb:8417 Atmel Corp.
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 04f2:b3d8 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

3 Answers

Depending exactly what the issue is, there are a bunch of options. Here are a few.

1. Start the bluetooth daemon

Go to your terminal and type :

sudo /etc/init.d/bluetooth start

2. Reinstall packages

If this doesn't work, go to your terminal and type :

sudo apt-get purge blueman bluez-utils bluez bluetooth
sudo apt-get install blueman bluez-utils bluez bluetooth

Then run :

sudo /etc/init.d/bluetooth start

i did the purge command already mentioned:

sudo apt-get purge blueman bluez-utils bluez bluetooth

but modified the install command like below

sudo apt-get install blueman bluez:i386 bluetooth

My settings icon is now missing but when I searched for bluetooth it prompted me to enable it and it now seems to work

I went back and reinstalled the other packages the purge removed:

sudo apt-get install pulseaudio-module-bluetooth* ubuntu-desktop* unity-control-center*

The abovecommand reinstalled the settings that had been uninstalled but bluetooth not connecting to my device. To be continued...

just replace the bluez-utils with bluez:i386 like so $sudo apt-get install blueman bluez:i386 bluetooth after then run the launch $sudo /etc/init.d/bluetooth start (Then it'll read out)

[ ok ] Starting bluetooth (via systemctl): bluetooth.service.

if you still don't see your device in the bluetooth pairing settings then your device's architecture just isn't built with the bluetooth setting available