BCM43142 Bluetooth 4.0 from which 0a5c:21d7 should be remembered. I read some answers and this is the gist of it: This should have fixed my problem but it did not Why? Any solution? BCM43142 Bluetooth 4.0 apt-get shows bcmwl-kernel-source is already the newest version. Dmesg grep Bluetooth gives Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: patch brcm/BCM43142A0-0a5c-21d7.hcd not found I don't have a Windows installation I can get files from From lsusb Bus 002 Device 005: ID 0a5c:21d7 Broadcom Corp. The only time it worked was when I had Dell preinstalled Ubuntu 12.04. I'm running a fresh installation of Ubuntu 14.10. I have an issue on a Dell Vostro 3560 with a BCM43142 where the Bluetooth doesn't work even with the proprietary drivers installed.
This package provides the driver for Dell 1703/1705 WiFi + BT and is suppported on Inspiron and Vostro Notebook that are running the following windows operating systems: Windows 7. Bcm43142a0 Dell Driver Windows 7 32bit: bcm43142a0 dell driver windows 7 32bit.md.
