RaspberryPi 1 B / TP-Link Bluetooth 5.0 Nano USB Adapter UB500

[michel]

Hello,

i am trying to get the "TP-Link Bluetooth 5.0 Nano USB Adapter UB500" working with my old 1B. I have just upgraded my RaspberryPi from an age old squeezeplug installation to pCP, to make the BT dongle work, but i am having trouble.

dmesg gave me this:

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[  127.464764] Finished piCorePlayer v8.2.0 startup.
[  531.954391] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.22
[  531.954621] NET: Registered PF_BLUETOOTH protocol family
[  531.954647] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[  531.954697] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[  531.954730] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[  531.954793] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[  532.170324] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: examining hci_ver=0a hci_rev=000b lmp_ver=0a lmp_subver=8761
[  532.171226] usbcore: registered new interface driver btusb
[  532.172276] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: rom_version status=0 version=1
[  532.172341] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: loading rtl_bt/rtl8761bu_fw.bin
[  532.172667] bluetooth hci0: Direct firmware load for rtl_bt/rtl8761bu_fw.bin failed with error -2
[  532.172758] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: firmware file rtl_bt/rtl8761bu_fw.bin not found

So i guess there is no driver for the device? I have been searching for information for the last three hours but i am out of my wits, my Linux knowledge is hardly existant. Any help to would be greatly appreciated.

[Paul_123]

Did you just try to google search "picoreplayer rtl8761bu"  seems the information is the number 1 result.

Otherwise, support for piCorePlayer is not done on this site.  Please see their documentation for help and support sites.

[michel]

Thanks to your comment, i had another look and indeed found it in the top results.

If anybody ends up here looking for a solution, i did what was written here:
https://forums.slimdevices.com/forum/user-forums/linux-unix/111586-picoreplayer-8-0-0-bluetooth-discussion?p=1633747#post1633747
(from user hafika3151)