Bluetooth Adapter Ubuntu

VMWare ended up taking away the USB port for the blue-tooth adapter.   Eventually, fixed by using USB 4-port to get a different adapter to get recognized.  Ran the following, anyway and left it.  Don't know if it did anything or not.

Refer: https://www.linuxliteos.com/manual/hardware.html#bluetooth

$ sudo leafpad /etc/bluetooth/audio.conf
Add the following to the file:

[General]
Enable = Source,Sink,Headset,Gateway,Control,Media
Disable = Socket

HFP=false

[A2DP]
SBCSources=1
MPEG12Sources=0

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cschramm/blueman
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install blueman pavucontrol pulseaudio-module-bluetooth -y

Refer: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxhardware/comments/t7hzdb/which_usb_bluetooth_dongle_would_you_recommend_me/

Use this to see kernel version

uname -r

UB500 Released September 2022

I've read in a few places that the TP-Link UB500 driver was added to the linux kernel starting with kernel version 5.16, meaning older kernel versions will require you to manually install the driver (https://github.com/tedboudros/tplink-ub500-linux-patch-guide)

Since Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04 only have kernel version 5.15, I bought the previous version of this device (TP-Link UB400) and I can confirm it works out of the box on Ubuntu. I just plugged it in and it worked.

I'm currently using UB400, and UB500 DID NOT WORK yet.

You could build a newer kernel, instructions here:

Refer: https://github.com/tedboudros/tplink-ub500-linux-patch-guide

How to Change Your Kernel

Refer: https://blog.mruckman.com/2021/09/change-linux-kernel-being-used/