Great instructions. Worked first time for me, although I never had to use a PIN it just worked....
Great instructions. Worked first time for me, although I never had to use a PIN it just worked....
Worked great for me and now that ive set HID_Enabled=1 it works after a reboot too!
I am having trouble getting this to work. Everything looks like it is working fine. It pairs and everything. Well at least I think it does, it askes me for the pin I entered on my apple keyboard, and after I put it in it says something like bonding created with Jacob's keyboard.
But then instead of hidd finishing out without saying anything it always says
if I runCan't get device information: Connection timed out
I can pair it again but it always the same.sudo rm -rf /var/lib/bluetooth/*
Last edited by lhommemagique; September 25th, 2007 at 02:37 AM.
I'm trying to follow this guide to get my Apple BT keyboard to pair to my Gutsy box, but it won't play ball.
If I try doing it through the system tray utility, it tell me that the BT address "isn't valid" (even though it can see it and identify it happily enough). And if I try and use the guide, I get told, at the final step, "Connecting to device **:**:**:**:**:** Can't get device information: Function not implemented"
Now I know the keyboard works fine and I can get my 'phone to connect to my computer with this set-up, so I'm guessing I'm doing something wrong, or gutsy is just demonstrating one of its hilarious bugs. Any ideas?
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Ah ha! I've figured it out.
When you type the --connect command, straight after THAT is when you type the PIN of your choice on the BT keyboard. Then click on the pop-up that appears on your sys-tray and repeat with the keyboard that is plugged.
So, in retrospect, the guide works perfectly. So does Gutsy. And I am a bit of a spaz.
Hurrah! Business as usual.
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Has anyone gotten this to work with the new wireless keyboard (the aluminum one)?
I got the old one working, But with the new one I'm getting a connection timed out error or connection refused error.
Yes, today my apple store just got the keyboard in.
I just picked it up.
I installed Bluetooth Applet in System Package manager. I'm running Fiesty.
I ran hcitool scan to get the mac address of my wireless mighty mouse and new aluminum keyboard.
The mouse was easy. I slide the on off switch on the bottom on, and typed sudo hidd --connect (mac address) and while its connecting tap the mouse just to make sure and it should pop up a password popup and you click it and enter 0000.
It should say in the popup, bonding created etc......
The keyboard I kept trying and trying...but then I tried what someone mentioned above. While trying to connect to the wireless keyboard, press 0 four times on the mac keyboard. Only when I did that did a password popup like the mouse pop up, in which I entered 0000 as the passkey and it then the popup said created bonding with keyboard etc.....
I just typed this post using the keyboard. But I know when I reboot, or something it might not be paired up. I will enter some changes in the boot up files to change that and see what happens later.
Last edited by LESLIEx317537; October 14th, 2007 at 12:36 AM. Reason: edit sudo hidd --connect (added hidd)
To XFCE Users:
You probably want to run gnome-panel to get this to work. The pin popup will not happen unless you are running gnome-panel. At least it didn't for me until I ran it. Once you pair it once, you no longer need the panel.
You have to do
Code:sudo hidd --connect BDADDR
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