Qualcomm Atheros AR956x Wireless Network Adapter works only as Wi-Fi adapter and doesn’t work as bluetooth adapter on Ubuntu 24.04.04 LTS

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Ubuntu Version:
24.04 LTS

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My Qualcomm Atheros AR956x Wireless Network Adapter works only as Wi-Fi adapter and
doesn’t work as bluetooth adapter on Ubuntu 24.04.04 LTS with the Live Patch enabled,but
this Qualcomm Atheros AR956x Wireless Network Adapterworks as a Wi-Fi and bluetooth
adapter on Windows 10. When I open Settings>Bluetooth,there is written “No Bluetooth
adapter found” Plug in a dongle to use bluetooth. Please,tell me,what I should do in order to
make this Qualcomm Atheros AR956x Wireless Network Adapter work as as a Wi-Fi and
bluetooth adapter on Ubuntu 24.04.04 LTS.

Please post results from terminal for lsusb

user@admin-PC:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:8001 Intel Corp. Integrated Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c52e Logitech, Inc. MK260 Wireless Combo Receiver
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 04f2:b520 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd HD WebCam
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 0bda:0129 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTS5129 Card Reader Controller
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
user@admin-PC:~$

What computer model?

it is laptop acer aspire E5-573-C3L6

I wrote PC for my privacy

user@admin-Aspire-E5-573:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:8001 Intel Corp. Integrated Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c52e Logitech, Inc. MK260 Wireless Combo Receiver
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 04f2:b520 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd HD WebCam
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 0bda:0129 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTS5129 Card Reader Controller
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
user@admin-Aspire-E5-573:~$

Try echo “blacklist acer-wmi”|sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/acer-wmi.conf then reboot

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How can executing echo “blacklist acer-wmi”|sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/acer-wmi and rebooting after that,make my Qualcomm Atheros AR956x bluetooth work,when this command was used here

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=234711

to make Wi-Fi work,and in my case Wi-FI works in the proper way,but Bluetooth doesn’t work at all?

I am not sure how it would affect the bluetooth device from showing in lsusb results but some other forums I visited while searching on this issue led to that possibility. There is a chance that resetting BIOS to defaults might allow Ubuntu to find the Bluetooth device. Has the hybrid shutdown been disabled in Windows?

Before I installed Ubuntu 24.04.04 LTS at my Acer aspire E5-573-C3L6,I set the BIOS of mt laptop to it’s default settings,booted up the laptop using the Ubuntu 24.04.4 live USB, the removed all partitions from the hard drive using Gnome Discs,then I installed Ubuntu 24.04.4 on my laptop,and after reboot set the appropriate UEFI file as trusted into the BIOS settings. When I used Windows at my laptop, fast boot was enabled. Can sudo modprobe ath3k
sudo modprobe btusb make my work,as it was written about here

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=290438

?

https://forums.

https://forum.zorin.com/t/built-in-bluetooth-card-not-working-on-linux/55622

There’s a boot option which may help too

I doubt those commands would work in this situation as the device isn’t shown in lsusb

The link from Actionparsnip is likely the one I saw that made me recommend blacklist acer-wmi

Is the fast boot option enabled in BIOS? I would disable that and even power off the laptop, then press and hold power button for 30 seconds and see if that fixes this

Should the text editor be run with admin rights in order to create an empty textile, rename it as "acer-wmi.conf, write the following text into the file and save it: blacklist acer-wmi,or should I only execute the nautilus as admin:/ via the terminal?

That command will do the same thing

should the command echo “blacklist acer-wmi”|sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/acer-wmi.conf be executed with sudo rights?

Run it as posted, it will work fine and hopefully it fixes the bluetooth

echo “blacklist acer-wmi”|sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/acer-wmi.conf

After that it will ask for password, enter password and then you should see “blacklist acer-wmi” in terminal, then reboot

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What is the results for lsusb now?

I decided,that I should buy a write protectable usb flash drive or SD card with enough capacity to make an image of my hard drive before executing this command for the reliability,if something goes wrong during the execution of this command,because it takes me more than two hours to reinstall Ubuntu with my slow Internet connection.

The command can’t cause any issue that can’t be reversed by sudo rm /etc/modprobe.d/acer-wmi.conf followed by a reboot

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