how to stop: when turning on bleutooth, it turns on airplane mode.

What is the output of:

sudo lshw -C network; dmesg | grep -i blue

Thanks

ichael@michael-Inspiron-620:~$ sudo lshw -C network; dmesg | grep -i blue
[sudo] password for michael:
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
       logical name: enp3s0
       version: 06
       serial: d4:be:d9:bb:27:d9
       size: 100Mbit/s
       capacity: 1Gbit/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=5.15.0-53-generic duplex=full firmware=rtl8168e-3_0.0.4 03/27/12 ip=192.168.1.141 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100Mbit/s
       resources: irq:16 ioport:d000(size=256) memory:d0004000-d0004fff memory:d0000000-d0003fff
[ 23.318141] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.22
[ 23.318165] NET: Registered PF_BLUETOOTH protocol family
[ 23.318166] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 23.318170] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 23.318172] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 23.318175] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[ 23.986090] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: examining hci_ver=0a hci_rev=000b lmp_ver=0a lmp_subver=8761
[ 23.987468] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: rom_version status=0 version=1
[ 23.987473] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: loading rtl_bt/rtl8761bu_fw.bin
[ 24.595469] bluetooth hci0: Direct firmware load for rtl_bt/rtl8761bu_fw.bin failed with error -2
[ 24.595481] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: firmware file rtl_bt/rtl8761bu_fw.bin not found
[ 38.829855] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[ 38.829859] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[ 38.829863] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
michael@michael-Inspiron-620:~$

I forgot to say, first thing I did was to download Linux drivers from Asus.

checking
https://fosspost.org/fix-bluetooth-rtl8761b-problem-on-linux-ubuntu-22-04/

michael@michael-Inspiron-620:~$ sudo dmesg | grep bluetooth
[ 24.595469] bluetooth hci0: Direct firmware load for rtl_bt/rtl8761bu_fw.bin failed with error -2
michael@michael-Inspiron-620:~$
Is what I got.

[ 3.582143] bluetooth hci0: loading /lib/firmware/rtl_bt/rtl8761bu_config.bin failed with error -40
[ 3.582145] bluetooth hci0: Direct firmware load for rtl_bt/rtl8761bu_config.bin failed with error -40
Is what they got.

Do you think I should apply their solution?

cd /lib/firmware/rtl_bt
sudo ln -s rtl8761b_config.bin rtl8761bu_config.bin
sudo ln -s rtl8761b_fw.bin rtl8761bu_fw.bin

Did not help, still the same.

first line
cd /lib/firmware/rtl_bt Gave me this,

michael@michael-Inspiron-620:/lib/firmware/rtl_bt$

I could not get #4 lines in. I tried to put in line by line. Terminal would not take second line.
I tried all three lines together, terminal would not take.
How to get the three lines into terminal?

Read farther down post. Tried removing dongle. Not good.

THIS is a MESS now. Will stop tonight, comeback tomorrow. Will reload drivers.

Thank You for your help.

I re-downloaded Linux drivers from Asus site. One picture below says searching for devices. The dongle is in. Any ideas?

https://i.imgur.com/wvTOZgE.png

https://i.imgur.com/P1rKS4Z.png

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.

Started working this morning. ???