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Hi there!

I'm trying to set up a bluetooth adapter on my raspberry pi (model 1 B+). The adapter comes from Farnell and it is supposed to be compatible with Raspian.

The adapter seems to be recognized, since:

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:8176 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188CUS 802.11n WLAN Adapter
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0424:ec00 Standard Microsystems Corp. SMSC9512/9514 Fast Ethernet Adapter
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0424:9512 Standard Microsystems Corp. SMC9512/9514 USB Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

But, when I fire up blueman-manager, I get prompted a warning window: "Bluetooth turned off - Bluetooth needs to be turned on for the device manager to function". I click on "Enable bluetooth" and the manger starts with the "Adapter" button grayed out.

I checked the troubleshooting section of the blueman project, and it suggests that my adapter might be at fault.
Running

$ bluetoothctl
[bluetooth]# list

doesn't get me any results.

The documentations suggests that the culprit might be a killswitch of some sort, but bluetooth seems enable on rfkill:

$ rfkill list
0: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

I am running the latest Raspian image (tried both lite and 'regular' favors).
Any ideas, anyone?

Thank you very much.

What do you get from If it indicates the adapter is "DOWN" (I suspect it will), try If that fails, report the results.