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Using latest fedora 41 with Plasma Mobile, I can't get Bluetooth to work. Nothing shows up running bluetoothctl list. It's an intel wireless 7265, which shows up as a network controller under lspci, but the bluetooth part doesnt. hciconfig returns nothing.

Steps I've taken:

sudo modprobe bluetooth

sudo dnf install bluez bluez-utils

sudo systemctl start bluetooth

I'm having deja vu where I followed all these steps before, but somehow I'm stuck here. Thank you for any help.

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Plasma mobile is probably different, I only see bluetoothctl and bluemoon from bluez-utils. When I run bluetoothctl power on it says No default controller available. systemctl status bluetooth initially returns inactive (dead) with no logs, and when I start it it gives the log:

Jan 20 16:24:38 solstice systemd[1]: bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service was skipped because of an unmet condition check (ConditionPathIsDirectory=/sys/class/bluetooth).

This error is fixed by running modprobe bluetooth as root. I can start bluetoothctl, and it runs successfully. The systemd logs return:

Jan 20 16:25:29 solstice bluetoothd[2481]: src/plugin.c:init_plugin() System does not support bap plugin
Jan 20 16:25:29 solstice bluetoothd[2481]: src/plugin.c:init_plugin() System does not support bass plugin
Jan 20 16:25:29 solstice bluetoothd[2481]: src/plugin.c:init_plugin() System does not support mcp plugin
Jan 20 16:25:29 solstice bluetoothd[2481]: src/plugin.c:init_plugin() System does not support vcp plugin

Another lemmier suggested that my system just doesn't have the right kernel. This is unfortunate but may be true at this point.