I have a Bluetooth adapter, it's working quite good on my Windows 7 (x64). But on my Fedora 24 (x64), it keeps showing me the Bluetooth is OFF even when I tried to turn it ON.I'm trying to solve this problem since yesterday, and it's no use! I already have these installed: bluez-hidhci, bluez-utils and gnome-Bluetooth. None of them worked for me! Any ideas? Thanks!UPDATE:$ lsusb...Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd $ rfkill list...2: hci0: Bluetooth    Soft blocked: no    Hard blocked: no$ dmesg | grep -i blue[   12.067177] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.21[   12.067212] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized[   12.067218] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized[   12.067221] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized[   12.067232] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized[   18.619866] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3[   18.619871] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast[   18.619876] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized$ hciconfighci0:   Type: BR/EDR  Bus: USB    BD Address: AE:2D:22:00:FF:00  ACL MTU: 344:12  SCO MTU: 180:16    DOWN     RX bytes:461 acl:0 sco:0 events:17 errors:0    TX bytes:296 acl:0 sco:0 commands:17 errors:0$ uname -aLinux local.arfed 4.5.5-300.fc24.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu May 19 13:05:32 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Is it possible to copy a driver from Windows to Linux?
fedora;drivers;bluetooth
Answering the question in the title: Is is possible to copy a driver from Windows to Linux?No, not without (quite a lot of) extra work.A driver hooks into the kernel of the operating system, allowing it to drive some hardware.The Linux kernel and the Windows kernel are understandably very different (or they would both be called Windows or Linux). So one can't expect to be able to simply take a driver, even if it was available in source form, from Windows and make it link with the Linux kernel, or even compile it reasonably cleanly on a Linux system (or on any system which is not the specific version(s) of Windows that it was written for).You can't even take a driver from OSes that are superficially similar, such as the BSD systems, and just import it into another system without some delicate coding. Having said that, code sharing on the device level do happen from time to time between free Unix systems, but not without the extra effort of fitting the code into a new kernel infrastructure.I do believe that there are instances where people have written kernel code for accessing reverse engineered binary blobs of drivers. This obviously requires someone to sit down to look at the binary driver, figure out what it's doing, and write the appropriate bits of Linux kernel code to hook into it, so it's still not just a matter of copying the driver.