Bluetooth woes (again)

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2015-10-26 at 11:14 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-10-26 at 12:01 +1030, Tim wrote:
> > Allegedly, on or about 25 October 2015, Patrick O'Callaghan sent:
> > > The mouse has adequate battery and power cycling makes no
> > difference. 
> > 
> > Could try the old remote control repair trick - grind the battery
> > around
> > on the battery terminal, scrape off any oxidisation.  If it's not
> > the
> > type that can be rotated, then a minor polish of the metal on the
> > battery and terminals using something else may help.
> 
> As I said, the mouse works on another system. I should also mention
> that the mouse light is on, i.e. it does have power.
> 
> I'm leaning towards thinking the problem isn't with the mouse but
> with
> the dongle (if in fact it's a hardware issue at all).

I found an old dongle lying around and tried it. It works. The
conclusion seems obvious (though not clear).

Thanks to everyone who tried to help. I don't think it's worth pursuing
this any further. I just wonder why my logs show repeated problems
loading the driver (going back months) but nevertheless the old dongle
seemed to work until now.

poc