Bluetooth mouse in Dapper

Carl Karsten carl at personnelware.com
Sat May 6 22:41:08 UTC 2006


Cameron Hutchison wrote:
> I've just booted the Ubuntu Dapper Beta 2 live CD and I'm wondering what
> I have to do to get my bluetooth mouse (Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer
> for Bluetooth, Model 1001) working.
> 
> When I plug in the bluetooth USB dongle that comes with the mouse, it is
> being detected by the kernel - /var/log/kern.log says:
>   input: HID 045e:00be as /class/input/input7
>   input: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [HID 045e:00be] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-1.3
> 
> [There are other lines from the usb subsystem, but the ones above seem
> most relevant]
> 
> However, nothing happens after that and the mouse does not work.
> 
> Is there something else I need to do to get the mouse to work?
> 
> 

I haven't done it yet, but I know that bluetooth requires paring.  guessing you 
need to make that happen.




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