Unable to pair my Bluetooth headset phones

[Jean-Marc B]

Hi folks ! Hope 2023 is ending well for each and everyone of you.

Here's my problem : I have dabbled for some years now with the same Bluetooth USB dongle and headset on various computers, fittes with different distros. Never had a problem.

Was using it under LL on my HP-Compaq mini laptop until it conked out last march. Haven't find the time to get the spare parts, nor the time to fix it yet, so I installed LL on a Samsung mini laptop.

Here comes my problem, can get the whole bluetooth contraption to work, and I can't figure out why. I've checked both dongle and headset on different computers, they work fine.  :banghead

Does anyone have any idea to solve my predicament ?

Btw, about my computer :

Code:

inxi -F
System:
  Host: jmb-N150-N210-N220 Kernel: 5.15.0-91-generic x86_64 bits: 64
  Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 Distro: Linux Lite 6.6 LTS
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: SAMSUNG product: N150/N210/N220 v: N/A
  serial: <superuser/root required>
  Mobo: SAMSUNG model: N150/N210/N220 serial: <superuser/root required>
  BIOS: Phoenix v: 05JI.M039.20100109.JIP date: 01/09/2010
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 42.9 Wh condition: 43.3/48.8 Wh (89%)
CPU:
  Topology: Single Core model: Intel Atom N450 bits: 64 type: MT
  L2 cache: 512 KiB
  Speed: 998 MHz min/max: 1000/1667 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 998 2: 997
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Atom Processor D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx Integrated Graphics
  driver: i915 v: kernel
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.21.1.4 driver: intel
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1024x576~60Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: i915 ( v: 2.1 Mesa 23.0.4-0ubuntu1~22.04.1
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio
  driver: snd_hda_intel
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.15.0-91-generic
Network:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath9k
  IF: wlp5s0 state: up mac: 90:4c:e5:97:11:1f
  Device-2: Marvell 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet driver: sky2
  IF: enp9s0 state: down mac: 00:24:54:57:f4:e8
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 572.13 GiB used: 51.25 GiB (9.0%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Kingston model: SA400S37480G size: 447.13 GiB
  ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Generic model: STORAGE DEVICE
  size: 125.00 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 438.55 GiB used: 51.24 GiB (11.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 61.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 225 Uptime: 1h 33m Memory: 1.91 GiB used: 1.18 GiB (62.0%)
  Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.38