Kubuntu 24.04 LTS - how to get rid of a «soft» block that disables Bluetooth?

[Nils Kassube]

On 13.08.24 Bastiaan Gijsbertus Roufs wrote:
> Kubuntu 24.04 LTS - how to get rid of a «soft» block that disables Bluetooth?
> 
> Hello,
> 
> here are the results of a Bluetooth related terminal test...
> 
> bas at Camino:~$ rfkill list
> 0: tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: Bluetooth
>         Soft blocked: yes
>         Hard blocked: no
> 1: phy0: Wireless LAN
>         Soft blocked: no
>         Hard blocked: no
[...] 
> Does anybody know what to do next to get Bluetooth fully functional?

I would suggest to start systemsettings -> "Bluetooth" -> "Enable". With that command I can remove the soft block on my Raspberry Pi running Kubuntu 24.04 even though I don't use Bluetooth.


Nils