Both btusb and ath3k loading OK during startup: ivan@mynote:~> lsmod|grep btusb btusb 53248 0 btrtl 16384 1 btusb btbcm 16384 1 btusb btintel 20480 1 btusb bluetooth 593920 12 btrtl,btintel,bnep,btbcm,ath3k,btusb usbcore 286720 7 uvcvideo,usbhid,xhci_pci,rtsx_usb,ath3k,btusb,xhci_hcd ivan@mynote:~> lsmod|grep ath3k ath3k 20480 0 bluetooth 593920 12 btrtl,btintel,bnep,btbcm,ath3k,btusb usbcore 286720 7 uvcvideo,usbhid,xhci_pci,rtsx_usb,ath3k,btusb,xhci_hcd Regarding /etc/modprobe.d - honestly I have no idea which files/lines are non-standard, I can't remember if I were adding anything here. Could you please check the list of files in this directory? ivan@mynote:/etc/modprobe.d> dir ���������� 72 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3647 ������ 11 09:47 00-system.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 532 ������ 14 2012 10-unsupported-modules.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 181 ������ 10 13:08 50-alsa.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5009 ������ 24 19:04 50-blacklist.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5091 ������ 5 2017 50-blacklist.conf.rpmsave -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 128 ������ 29 13:06 50-bluetooth.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33 ������ 30 18:04 50-ipw2200.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34 ������ 30 18:04 50-iwl3945.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 551 ������ 24 19:04 50-libmlx4.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18 ������ 30 18:04 50-prism54.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 47 ������ 22 2011 99-local.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 158 ������ 22 17:59 firewalld-sysctls.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1004 ������ 13 17:28 mlx4.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 88 ������ 24 19:04 truescale.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 673 ������ 26 2017 tuned.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49 ������ 17 20:31 vmware-fuse.conf