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  • Bluetooth and Webcam stopped working after upgrading to Bullseye

    From Alexsander@21:1/5 to All on Sun Oct 1 13:10:02 2023
    Hi!

    It seems that Bluetooth adapter and Webcam from my Samsung Series 5
    ultrabook stopped working after upgrading from Bullseye to Bookworm.
    It's an old NP530U3B-AD1BR. Bluetooth is a Centrino Advanced-N 6230 and
    Webcam is a WebCam SC-13HDL11431N.

    It'd be great if someone could point where I can start searching on how
    to solve this.

    Thanks in advance

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  • From Marvin Renich@21:1/5 to All on Sun Oct 1 16:50:01 2023
    * Alexsander <[email protected]> [231001 07:03]:
    Hi!

    It seems that Bluetooth adapter and Webcam from my Samsung Series 5
    ultrabook stopped working after upgrading from Bullseye to Bookworm. It's an old NP530U3B-AD1BR. Bluetooth is a Centrino Advanced-N 6230 and Webcam is a WebCam SC-13HDL11431N.

    It'd be great if someone could point where I can start searching on how to solve this.

    Have you enabled non-free-firmware in /etc/apt/sources.list? If you
    read the release notes, they should give you good enough instructions.
    If you have not, and the release notes aren't sufficient, ask again
    here.

    If you have already done that, then I'm not sure I can help.

    ...Marvin

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  • From mi@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 2 01:10:01 2023
    I did not use bt in a very long time but i remember back then it really helped when i installed blueman. It will install the necessary subsystem dependencies too.

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  • From Alexsander Farias de Oliveira@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 2 14:30:01 2023
    Hi!

    I appreciate very much your effort to help. Unfortunately, it didn't work. Installing blueman on my system didn't bring any additional library and didn't bring back my bluetooth device.

    Alexsander Farias


    Em domingo, 1 de outubro de 2023 20:06:18 GMT-3, mi <[email protected]> escreveu:


    I did not use bt in a very long time but i remember back then it really helped when i installed blueman. It will install the necessary subsystem dependencies too.





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  • From Marvin Renich@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 2 18:00:01 2023
    * Alexsander Farias de Oliveira <[email protected]> [231002 08:27]:
    Hi!

    I appreciate very much your effort to help. Unfortunately, it didn't
    work. Installing blueman on my system didn't bring any additional
    library and didn't bring back my bluetooth device.

    Just to be sure, does /lib/firmware contain a number of iwlwifi-*.ucode
    files?

    Is /lib a symlink to /usr/lib? If so, do you have /usr on a separate
    partition that gets mounted by the initrd?

    After booting, does the output of lsmod contain iwlwifi?

    Does �modprobe -r iwlwifi� followed by �modprobe iwlwifi� fix it?

    ...Marvin

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  • From Matus UHLAR - fantomas@21:1/5 to Alexsander on Tue Oct 3 12:30:01 2023
    On 03.10.23 06:40, Alexsander wrote:
    I checked and /lib/firmware does contain many iwlwifi-*.ucode files.
    Also, /lib is a symlink to /usr/lib, but my /usr and / are on the same >partition.

    lsmod does show iwlwifi.

    "modprobe -r iwlwifi" gives me  "modprobe: FATAL: Module iwlwifi is in use."

    You need to unconfigure wi-fi interface to unload the module.


    On 02/10/2023 12:57, Marvin Renich wrote:
    * Alexsander Farias de Oliveira <[email protected]> [231002 08:27]: >>> Hi!

    I appreciate very much your effort to help. Unfortunately, it didn't >>>work. Installing blueman on my system didn't bring any additional
    library and didn't bring back my bluetooth device.
    Just to be sure, does /lib/firmware contain a number of iwlwifi-*.ucode >>files?

    Is /lib a symlink to /usr/lib? If so, do you have /usr on a separate >>partition that gets mounted by the initrd?

    After booting, does the output of lsmod contain iwlwifi?

    Does «modprobe -r iwlwifi» followed by «modprobe iwlwifi» fix it?

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  • From mi@21:1/5 to All on Fri Oct 6 20:50:01 2023
    Vladimir,


    well, but he said it had worked before ... ?

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  • From mi@21:1/5 to All on Fri Oct 6 21:20:02 2023
    Alexsander,

    Let's go back to the initially provided information ...

    * Alexsander <[email protected]> [231001 07:03]:
    Hi!

    It seems that Bluetooth adapter and Webcam from my Samsung Series 5 ultrabook stopped working after upgrading from Bullseye to Bookworm.
    It's an old NP530U3B-AD1BR.
    Bluetooth is a Centrino Advanced-N 6230 and Webcam is a
    WebCam SC-13HDL11431N.

    It'd be great if someone could point where I can start searching on
    how to
    solve this.

    This is just a guess.

    Since this is a pretty old chip.

    It is still listed here:

    https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/iwlwifi#supported_devices

    but maybe they've thrown out support for this chip in the newer kernel/iwlwifi version.

    At least, i can not find it listed in my debian 'trixie' package:

    # apt-cache show firmware-iwlwifi
    Package: firmware-iwlwifi
    Source: firmware-nonfree
    Version: 20230210-5
    (.... long list ...)

    * There should be a 'dmesg' notification from the bluetooth subsystem, if the chip was detected but not supported. Grep for 'bluetooth' or 'iwlwifi'.

    * You could try to boot into the old kernel which was active before the upgrade (if that's still installed) and see it it makes a difference.

    * You could also try downgrading iwlwifi and firmware-linux and if that works, put these packages on 'hold'.

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  • From Marvin Renich@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 10 20:40:01 2023
    * Alexsander Farias de Oliveira <[email protected]> [231008 17:45]:
    Since I don't have the old kernel anymore, I think my last chance,
    beyond using an external bt dongle, is to downgrade iwlwifi. I'll try
    it as soon as possible.�

    You can always grab a kernel from bullseye. Usually snapshot.debian.org
    also keeps all versions of all packages, but lately that service has
    been down.

    Usually you can find info about what packages were upgraded in /var/log/apt/history* and /var/log/aptitude*. The aptitude logs are a
    little easier to tell what happened, but the aptitude logs are specific
    to aptitude, whereas the apt logs give info about any action where a
    front-end like aptitude or apt uses the apt backend.

    ...Marvin

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