Often with a Linux kernel update, or even after a first install of Linux in place of Windows, Bluetooth stops working and the advice is usually to just power off your computer, wait a bit, and then turn it on again. Bluetooth then miraculously works again.

I mean the issue could also come from other things (not starting the right kernel module etc…), but very often it’s just this simple trick that makes it work again.

So what is changing in the Bluetooth device when you do this power off/wait a bit/power on trick?

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    So… this is Linux… You could try restarting the specific service. If that works. The advice was dumb and it was a software problem.

    If it doesn’t, it was some type of weird hardware problem.

    In my experience, though simply toggling the antenna (using the gui widget next to the clock, or gui settings-> Bluetooth off) works

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      1 year ago

      You can restart services in Windows too but directing someone who is bad with tech would take too long, so it’s common to tell them to just restart.

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        Eh, as long as you know the service in question, you can restart it. Windows…. Doesn’t trust the user that much.

        This includes the kernel…. No… thst doesn’t end well…

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          No, you’d tell them to restart a specific service (like print spooler) for whatever issue they’re having and provide a little tutorial with pictures. No guarantee they won’t still fuck up of course.

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      I once had rsync going and didn’t want to stop it. my xorg somehow died, managed to restart that from ssh keeping the rsync running. had to use something to move the rsyncs to a screen first. kinda cool how you can almost always just restart parts of Linux instead of the whole thing