/linux-ub500

Solve problem with TP-LINK UB500 Usb Dongle

GNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

Fix UB500 driver problem (Bluetooth 5 devices) on Linux

Forked from rogovskyyy/linux-ub500

Before you start - make sure you're missing UB500 driver.

lsusb; dmesg | egrep -i 'blue|firm'

If it says something like

[    6.019483] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: loading rtl_bt/rtl8761b_fw.bin
[    6.019814] bluetooth hci0: Direct firmware load for rtl_bt/rtl8761b_fw.bin failed with error -2
[    6.019818] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: firmware file rtl_bt/rtl8761b_fw.bin not found

Or something like this:

[  205.159544] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: loading rtl_bt/rtl8761bu_fw.bin
[  205.159561] bluetooth hci0: Direct firmware load for rtl_bt/rtl8761bu_fw.bin failed with error -2
[  205.159563] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: firmware file rtl_bt/rtl8761bu_fw.bin not found

Simply put

rtl8761b_fw.bin
rtl8761b_config.bin
rtl8761bu_fw.bin
rtl8761bu_config.bin

into

/lib/firmware/rtl_bt

and replug the bluetooth module. (If after replug doesn't work, try restarting the pc) Voilà

Tested on TP-Link UB500 & Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS with 5.15.0-52-generic Linux Kernel

Useful link

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/commit/?id=7118987b2f7aff733573121607bc9640a4880296