Bluetooth - no adapters available

[anarcho-taoist]

Hi all!

I am new to the forum. I am testing out Kubuntu 17.10 in virtualbox to see if it will be my first Linux hard install on a new laptop down the road.

I have no working bluetooth: Bluetooth - no adapters available

Any suggestions? Thanks!

anarcho@kubuntu17:~$ sudo systemctl status bluetooth.service
[sudo] password for anarcho:
● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Sat 2018-02-17 21:49:51 AEDT; 6min ago
Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
Main PID: 1024 (bluetoothd)
Status: "Running"
Tasks: 1 (limit: 4915)
CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service
└─1024 /usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd

Feb 17 21:49:50 kubuntu17 systemd[1]: Starting Bluetooth service...
Feb 17 21:49:51 kubuntu17 bluetoothd[1024]: Bluetooth daemon 5.46
Feb 17 21:49:51 kubuntu17 systemd[1]: Started Bluetooth service.
Feb 17 21:49:51 kubuntu17 bluetoothd[1024]: Starting SDP server
Feb 17 21:49:51 kubuntu17 bluetoothd[1024]: Bluetooth management interface 1.14 initialized
anarcho@kubuntu17:~$ sudo hciconfig hci0 up
Can't get device info: No such device
anarcho@kubuntu17:~$ ^C
anarcho@kubuntu17:~$

[Snowhog]

Can we assume that you are running the VM on the laptop you want to 'hard install' to? Is the package bt-device installed?

bt-device - a bluetooth device manager

[vinnywright]

maybe ,,,,,,,,https://scribles.net/enabling-bluetooth-in-virtualbox/

VINNY