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EOS ships with Bluetooth disabled #483

Closed smileBeda closed 10 months ago

smileBeda commented 10 months ago

https://wiki.t2linux.org/guides/wifi-bluetooth/ says:

If you're running Arch or EndeavourOS and have apple-bcm-firmware installed, you do not need to follow this guide.

But that is not true, at least the T2 EOS disables Bluetooth to 100% and you need to systemctl enable --now bluetooth to even be able to trun on/off bluetooth. Only then Bluetooth will actually work and allow you to tur it on/off,connect or tether.

Let me know if it is OK to make a PR to add said notice.

NoaHimesaka1873 commented 10 months ago

WONTFIX. That guide is for installing firmware, not about enabling Bluetooth daemon. Bluetooth shipping disabled is EOS upstream default behavior. You are free to make suggestion to them.

AdityaGarg8 commented 10 months ago

There must be some reference for this information in the wiki then, maybe in the EOS part?

smileBeda commented 10 months ago

Well the reason is this https://thehackernews.com/2023/12/new-bluetooth-flaw-let-hackers-take.html?m=1

But I think it’s misleading saying “it works” when it doesn’t specially mentioning the distro which didn’t fix the vulnerability. All I intended was adding a notice about Bluetooth not working out of the box.

I guess people can find out (the harder way) via asking in eos forum like I did: https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/how-to-actually-share-a-file-via-bluetooth/48795/3

AdityaGarg8 commented 10 months ago

You may pr. I'll see if it's worth it.

NoaHimesaka1873 commented 10 months ago

But I think it’s misleading saying “it works” when it doesn’t specially mentioning the distro which didn’t fix the vulnerability. All I intended was adding a notice about Bluetooth not working out of the box.

Still, you don't have to follow that guide. Nowhere it mentions that it works out of the box. It's not misleading. It just suggests that user don't have to follow that particular guide to enable Bluetooth. Might be worth adding it to install guide though, not the firmware guide.

Also, that particular vulnerability is already fixed. And this is the original behavior even before CVE-2023-45866 was announced. If you want it to be enabled, or warned about it being disabled during install, go to EndeavourOS Telegram or Forum.

NoaHimesaka1873 commented 10 months ago

Also this is a duplicate of #406.

smileBeda commented 10 months ago

No one asks for it to be enabled by default. Indeed thou the place I suggested for the notice is wrong.

Thanks for adding it to the install guide, I think it’s going to avoid a few “not working” complains.