Lost bluetooth? From Sierra .1 to .2 and .3

[xrnc]

I have an Intel NUC i7 RYH running as a Macbook Pro 12,1 via clover.

 

Originally installed El Cap, and everything worked fine except the unsupported wifi/bluetooth embedded in the NUC's mobo, which was fine, whatever.

 

But on the first release of Sierra Apple mistakenly threw us a bone!  The included bluetooth worked, but not the wifi which is still unsupported.  I happily used the integral bluetooth until the first update to Sierra came along, and bluetooth mysteriously disappeared.  I just updated to 10.12.3 and it's still gone from the settings menu.

 

I made a Ubuntu bootstick to verify that it wasn't a hardware problem, and all of my devices do in fact sync up just fine under Ubuntu.

 

Here's the output of the console in regard to blued.

 

http://pastebin.com/LG5MEuKB

 

And my USB device list showing the identified bluetooth controller is attached.

 

As of these last two updates I get "no information found" in the bluetooth system report and the bluetooth menu item is greyed out, showing "not available".

 

Anyone got any ideas?

[JahStories]

This intel b/t needs fw injected to work, you can use a virtual machine with ubuntu to inject it, then it will work on macOS too...

but you have to do this every time you reboot

[xrnc]

That doesn't explain why it worked OOB with the upgrade from El Cap to Sierra, though...

 

And then suddenly stopped.

 

This might, though.

 

https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/15081

 

I am doing a fresh install of Sierra and will install the virtual box version from that thread that is reported to have no Bluetooth issues, will report back.