Where's the bluetooth jargon demystifier?
Bill Davidsen
davidsen at tmr.com
Mon Apr 7 17:07:56 UTC 2008
Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:54:59 -0400
> Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> wrote:
>
>> Did you run the --connect command after finding the device? (I assume
>> so, but BT is magic)
>
> When I was playing with bluetooth, I never once got --connect to
> work, the only thing that ever caused the keyboard to appear
> was doing a --search, then (before the search timed out) taking
> the back off the keyboard and pressing the connect button.
>
> I have since gotten everything working with the USB dongle, and
> it functions perfectly. I never have to push any buttons on the
> keyboard or dongle (even if I reboot or move the dongle to a
> different computer), the USB interface lets the keyboard work
> in the BIOS screen and in grub, etc.
>
> I have abandoned bluetooth till I happen to get something that
> only works in bluetooth mode and I am forced to try again :-).
>
> Here's the tale of my keyboard:
>
> http://home.att.net/~Tom.Horsley/mini.html
>
Thank you for documenting, I would love to have BT speakers and printing
working, the current setup really rots.
--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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