Bug#887932: firmware-iwlwifi: Bluetooth not working

[Ryan Lue <ryan.lue@gmail.com>]

Package: firmware-iwlwifi
Followup-For: Bug #887932

I’d like to add that upgrading
from stretch (20161130-3) to buster (20170823-1)
broke bluetooth on my machine.

I suspect the symptoms were different —
I don’t use GNOME, but ‘hciconfig -a’ did report my Bluetooth adapter.
However, ‘bluetoothctl’ would fail unpredictably in a couple places:

1. On a fresh boot with no devices connected,
   I could ‘power on’, ‘scan on’, and even sometimes ‘pair <MAC>’,
   but ‘connect <MAC>’ would time out (‘hci0 command tx timeout’).
2. But more often, I could only ‘power on’ and ‘scan on’,
   and then ‘devices’ always turned up empty.

I have an Intel 8260 WiFi/Bluetooth adapter (from a ThinkPad T460).
Downgrading to the stretch version (20161130-3) fixes the problem.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.16.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

firmware-iwlwifi depends on no packages.

firmware-iwlwifi recommends no packages.

Versions of packages firmware-iwlwifi suggests:
ii  initramfs-tools  0.130

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