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I have been trying to make the Raspberry Pi work regarding Bluetooth using the command bluetoothctl. I've been using Wheezybefore and now I started using Jessie, because I couldn't find an image for Wheezyanymore for my Raspberry Pi 1 after it got infected by malware.

What I want to say by this is that regarding hardware, it worked, so it is a software issue.

I've been trying to pair my Bluetooth A2DP transmitter B-speech TX2 for quite some time with my pi-1 and my plugged in Belkin Bluetooth 4.0 USB Adapter BT-USB-dongle and everything it says is this:Attempting to pair with 00:0A:1D:16:60:50 Failed to pair: org.bluez.Error.ConnectionAttemptFailed I even got that far to reach the authentication failed but I don't remember how I managed to do this. The thing is that this is very time consuming and I would like to know, where I can get some logs, more information about why it doesn't work and maybe some troubleshooting regarding bluetoothctl.

This is the bluetooth part of the dmesg output:

[   11.362733] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.22
[   11.362870] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[   11.362900] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[   11.362919] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[   11.362971] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[   11.680116] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: chip id 63
[   11.697233] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM20702A
[   11.699286] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM20702A1 (001.002.014) build 0000
[   11.704076] bluetooth hci0: Direct firmware load for brcm/BCM20702A1-0a5c-21e8.hcd failed with error -2
[   11.704105] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: Patch brcm/BCM20702A1-0a5c-21e8.hcd not found
[   17.110718] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[   17.110733] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[   17.110841] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
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  • Running `sudo journalctl -f` ("follow" mode) in a window will show you all log messages generated on the system. – cjs Apr 15 '17 at 20:22
  • @CurtJ.Sampson Thanks. What do you do with `bluetooth hci0: Direct firmware load for brcm/BCM20702A1-0a5c-21e8.hcd failed with error -2` and `Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: Patch brcm/BCM20702A1-0a5c-21e8.hcd not found`? – Vitalis Hommel Apr 15 '17 at 20:25
  • No idea. You should add to your question information about the device you're trying to connect; without knowing even what that is pretty much everything's going to be a mystery to us. – cjs Apr 15 '17 at 20:27
  • @CurtJ.Sampson Updated. – Vitalis Hommel Apr 15 '17 at 20:35

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The Bluetooth adapter you're using has a chip in it that needs to have firmware loaded into it to work properly.

As per this plugable.com blog entry, you need to download a copy of the firmware from here (the firmware is the same for the A0 and A1 revisions of the chip)

wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/plugable/bin/fw-0a5c_21e8.hcd

and then copy it into /lib/firmware under the path and filename given in the error message:

sudo cp fw-0a5c_21e8.hcd /lib/firmware/brcm/BCM20702A1-0a5c-21e8.hcd
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