Problem with bluetooth mouse- 8.10

[John]

--- On Mon, 11/24/08, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:

> From: Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com>
> Subject: Re: Problem with bluetooth mouse- 8.10
> To: jmuielewicz at yahoo.com, "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Monday, November 24, 2008, 3:28 PM
> John wrote:
> > 
> > --- On Mon, 11/24/08, John
> <jmuielewicz at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> >   
> >> From: John <jmuielewicz at yahoo.com>
> >> Subject: Re: Problem with bluetooth mouse- 8.10
> >> To: jmuielewicz at yahoo.com
> >> Date: Monday, November 24, 2008, 2:22 PM
> >> --- On Sun, 11/23/08, John
> <jmuielewicz at yahoo.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> 
> >>     
> >>> From: John <jmuielewicz at yahoo.com>
> >>> Subject: Problem with bluetooth mouse- 8.10
> >>> To: "ubuntu list"
> >>>       
> >> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> >>     
> >>> Date: Sunday, November 23, 2008, 10:15 PM
> >>> In Ubuntu 8.10 I am having trouble getting my
> >>>       
> >> bluetooth
> >>     
> >>> mouse working. My bluetooth keyboard works
> fine. Both
> >>>       
> >> work
> >>     
> >>> fine in windows xp. 
> >>> I switch on the mouse, put it in discoverable
> mode.
> >>>       
> >> Start
> >>     
> >>> the computers discoverable mode. The computer
> finds
> >>>       
> >> the
> >>     
> >>> mouse and says its configured but never loads
> any
> >>>       
> >> driver for
> >>     
> >>> the mouse and the mouse doesn't leave
> discoverable
> >>>       
> >> mode.
> >>     
> >>> It is stuck in it and I have to boot back to
> windows
> >>>       
> >> to fix
> >>     
> >>> the mouse.       
> >> I got it working. I installed the bluez3 utils
> package and
> >> installed the mouse by using hidd. I typed sudo
> hidd -s and
> >> it found and enabled the mouse. There must be some
> bug in
> >> bluez4. I looked in /var/lib/bluetooth and
> didn't find
> >> any info about the mouse, in spite of the fact the
> compuetr
> >> said it was configured, but the keyboard had full
> config
> >> info there.
> >> 
> >> john
> >>     
> > 
> >   
>    Please tell us more. Are you using a USB Dongal that is
> your Bluetooth device for the computer? It works with
> Windows because you have drivers for windows. But there are
> no drivers for Linux. Bluetooth is very nice but it is not
> available for many things.

I did a little more research and I believe the problem is in hcitool. Whenever I try to pair using it it always fails. I type in hcitool cc btaddr and it fails to activate the mouse. However when I use it to scan for the mouse it does find it.

john