Bluetooth failes to connect in Dell XPS and Fedora 38

General Topics
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Bluetooth worked perfectly on my Dell XPS 2-in-1 notebook installed with Fedora 37. After Kernel upgrade it stopped working. Upgrading to Fedora 38 did not resolved bluetooth connectivity. None of the online recommended processes to pair devices manually works.

Running from the user prompt the command: bluetoothctl and thereafter from the the [bluetooth] prompt the show command displays:
Controller 9C:B6:D0:9C:C2:10 (public)
Name: fedora
Alias: fedora
Class: 0x007c0000 (8126464)
Powered: yes
PowerState: on
Discoverable: no
DiscoverableTimeout: 0x000000b4 (180)
Pairable: yes
UUID: Message Notification Se… (00001133-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: A/V Remote Control (0000110e-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: OBEX Object Push (00001105-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: Message Access Server (00001132-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: PnP Information (00001200-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: IrMC Sync (00001104-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: A/V Remote Control Target (0000110c-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: Generic Attribute Profile (00001801-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: Phonebook Access Server (0000112f-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: Device Information (0000180a-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: Audio Sink (0000110b-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: Generic Access Profile (00001800-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: Handsfree Audio Gateway (0000111f-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: Audio Source (0000110a-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: OBEX File Transfer (00001106-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: Handsfree (0000111e-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
Modalias: usb:v1D6Bp0246d0544
Discovering: no
Roles: central
Roles: peripheral
Advertising Features:
ActiveInstances: 0x00 (0)
SupportedInstances: 0x05 (5)
SupportedIncludes: tx-power
SupportedIncludes: appearance
SupportedIncludes: local-name

After running the command scan on the system displays:
[bluetooth]# scan on
Discovery started
[CHG] Controller 9C:B6:D0:9C:C2:10 Discovering: yes
This time running the command show displays:
[bluetooth]# show
Controller 9C:B6:D0:9C:C2:10 (public)
Name: fedora
Alias: fedora
Class: 0x007c0000 (8126464)
Powered: yes
PowerState: on
Discoverable: no
DiscoverableTimeout: 0x000000b4 (180)
Pairable: yes
UUID: Message Notification Se… (00001133-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: A/V Remote Control (0000110e-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: OBEX Object Push (00001105-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: Message Access Server (00001132-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: PnP Information (00001200-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: IrMC Sync (00001104-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: A/V Remote Control Target (0000110c-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: Generic Attribute Profile (00001801-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: Phonebook Access Server (0000112f-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: Device Information (0000180a-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: Audio Sink (0000110b-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: Generic Access Profile (00001800-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: Handsfree Audio Gateway (0000111f-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: Audio Source (0000110a-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: OBEX File Transfer (00001106-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: Handsfree (0000111e-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
Modalias: usb:v1D6Bp0246d0544
Discovering: yes
Roles: central
Roles: peripheral
Advertising Features:
ActiveInstances: 0x00 (0)
SupportedInstances: 0x05 (5)
SupportedIncludes: tx-power
SupportedIncludes: appearance
SupportedIncludes: local-name

However the Microsoft bluetooth mouse and keyboard are still not discoverable.

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First, welcome to the forum.

To be clear, this is entirely on your Dell XPS 2-in-1 notebook, correct?

This forum is for Framework products. Such as the Framework laptop 13.

3

I’ve re-categorized this post to General Topics because it is not about Framework hardware. That said, it’s unlikely that you’ll receive much help here, given that it’s a company-specific forum. I recommend you find a more general tech support forum, or one that is specific to Dell.