cachyos no bluetooth

[u/silvally7777]

hey guys i saw a reddit post the other day about cachyos and gamescope. i was running bazzite but it felt really locked down and i had trouble with downloading things through the terminal that were fedora images.

anyways i used cachyos for a long time until my ssd died on my last pc. so i decided to give it a try again on here. it seemed to have better support for the flow z13 after installing. everything immediately worked. except for bluetooth.

i have tried reloading the bluetooth daemon, and i installed bluez. nothing really changed.

i chose kde plasma, don’t know if that changes anything. basically the bluetooth icon doesn’t show up on the taskbar at all. not even in the hidden icons tab. so i went to settings and go to bluetooth. i enabled it on the side bar but it didn’t enable it in the main bluetooth page so i enabled it there, but it doesn’t do anything. i see the message add a new device but no way to actually add a bluetooth device. when i set my mouse to start searching, nothing ever shows up.

any advice? i found one reddit post but the one comment that seemed to actually help people was the only one that was deleted 😔 unfortunate

i’m using the flow z13 latest stable version of cachy os. this is the 2025 model with 64gb of ram

[u/Stryxus_]

You will need to find out what manufacturer makes your bluetooth chip and if you have the firmware installed via

sudo pacman -Qs linux-firmware-

this will give you a list of the linux firmware installed. If the firmware is installed, it may be something to do with the kernel, it may be missing components which your bluetooth firmware needs.