They seem to connect at boot without editing some sort of startup file.
They seem to connect at boot without editing some sort of startup file.
Last edited by LESLIEx317537; October 14th, 2007 at 12:51 AM.
I have to say this is pretty hilarious. How am I supposed to type anything IF THERE IS NO FREAKIN' KEYBOARD TO TYPE WITH?
That is about as retarded as the same thread about how to get the airport wireless card working...just download this driver...blah blah. THERE IS NOT NETWORK CONNECTION SKIPPY!
Ubuntu 7.1 still doesn't recognize the wireless keyboard and mouse? Dude....it's the same old problems with Linux. I've been using Linux since Slackware 1.0 and it is always the same ****. Monitor doesn't work, only supports those crappy resolutions, maybe the printer, how about the USB card? What about the EVDO card? Hmmm....let's see if I can get my wireless mouse and keyboard to work. Great now if only I could just get the RAID card recognized. SSDD.
I'm a technical guy, but it is always a battle just to get Linux up and running and doing basic tasks.
I've been trying out Gutsy with the new Aluminium Wireless Keyboard. It is working perfectly in terms of getting it recognised, and when I reboot it remembers the settings, so I can log in using the keyboard.
However, a couple of things that I would still like to sort out:
- when I reboot into windows xp (dual boot), it doesn't recognise the keyboard, and then I have to go through a pairing process with xp. This works, but then when I restart back into ubuntu, even though the settings say ubuntu should always trust the keyboard connection, it has actually lost it, and I have to "untrust" the connection and delete it before I can reconnect by typing in a pin on the keyboard and pair it again.
- The fn key doesn't seem to work. I've run xev to see what keycodes get pressed, and everything generates a keycode except the fn key. I've also tried pressing combinations like fn + F4 for example, and this still generates the F4 keycode. Because the keyboard doesn't have a delete key (just a backspace), the idea (I believe) is to press fn+backspace to get a delete key. I'd like to allow some sort of remapping to enable this (and the media keys, home, end etc), but obviously can't do anything if the fn key isn't recognised in the first place.
- I've read something about HID proxy in this thread and in other posts, and about being able to update the firmware on bluetooth dongles that use a CSR chip in order to get HID proxy working. This is meant to enable you to somehow pair the keyboard with the dongle, rather than the operating system. I'm thinking this might solve problem 1, and also enable me to select operating systems, etc with the wireless keyboard.
Anyone had any success with these questions?
Question: will this procedure work even if the computer that Ubuntu is installed on is not a Mac? I am thinking of buying the (original) Apple wireless keyboard for my Dell because it is the only wireless keyboard that anyone makes a Dvorak cover for (http://www.kbcovers.com/servlet/Detail?no=43).
Thanks.
Yup. Mine is a home-baked affair and it works fine
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Hi there,
I have been using the new aluminium apple bluetooth keyboard for a month now and its been brilliant. Feisty and pairing was not a problem and it comes on automatically when I start typing on boot up at the login prompt.
The main annoyance is its power saving mode! Although its great it saves batteries after a break it doesn't reconnect and I have to power it off by holding down the power button for 5 secs and then powering it on again. Its still seen as connected in the os.
Has anyone else encountered this. Any advice?
Cheers
G
Thank you for the excellent how-to. Worked like a champ and still there after reboots.
hi, i got the sleek apple bt kbd working with kubuntu . everything was working fine until a recent upgrade then it started acting weird, it was not reconnecting ... cant seem to figure out what has changed ... does anyone have any ideas how to fix it ...??
Thanks
steve
FIXED: found the solution to keyboard not reconnecting
remove the --master option from the hidd options in /etc/default/bluetooth
Cheers
I found the details in this thread helped me, check it out:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=227057
I got my Microsoft bluetooth-keyboard and -mouse working, without trouble.
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