How to disable bluetooth probe

[Pankaj Jangid]

Hi,

I get the below error message every second on my text console. And due
to this I have to use GUI. I could find out that my hardware is not yet
supported by Linux Kernel 5.10, and 5.15 - which is in unstable - has
support for my motherboard.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
[ 7270.511273] Bluetooth: hci0: Reading Intel version information failed (-22)
[ 7270.511275] Bluetooth: hci0: Intel Read version failed (-22)
[ 7270.511293] Bluetooth: hci0: Intel reset sent to retry FW download
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Till the new kernel is available in stable, how can I disable the above
probe and hence the frequent messages?

Regards ~Pankaj

[David Wright]

I think you should be able to add a file called:
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklistbluetooth.conf
containing:
blacklist bluetooth
which should prevent that module and its dependencies
being inserted into the kernel.

If you want to avoid rebooting, you might be able to:
# rmmod bluetooth
but you might need to remove modules like:
btrtl,btintel,bnep,btbcm,rfcomm,btusb ¹
first, and they might be busy.

¹ lsmod or /proc/modules tells you which they are.

Cheers,
David.

[Anssi Saari]

Pankaj Jangid <pan...@codeisgreat.org> writes:

> Till the new kernel is available in stable, how can I disable the above
> probe and hence the frequent messages?

But 5.15 is already in bullseye-backports? And it'll never come to
Bullseye so it'll be a wait of a couple of years until Bookworm release
if you don't install it from backports.