Problem with bluetooth mouse- 8.10

[Karl Larsen]

Jared Greenwald wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 9:37 PM, John <jmuielewicz at yahoo.com> wrote:
>   
>>
>> --- 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
>>
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>
> I noticed that I was having some connection issues with my BT mouse
> (Logitech Travel Mouse) and after poking around in the preferences
> (right click on the BT icon in the notification area in the panel and
> select Preferences) I noticed that there was a setting to change the
> visibility to "always visible" and that seemed to straighten it out.
> Not sure if  that's related to your problem but figured it might be
> helpful.
>
>   
    I need to say this. I am interested in the software driver for 
Bluetooth in Ubuntu and linux in general. Is it a normal part of Ubuntu? 
Which Bluetooth hardware does it work with?

    My Bluetooth Dongle which is a small USB device has windows but no 
Linux drivers that I can find. So I did a Google search with 
"linux,bluetooth,drivers" and got some hits but they were all from 
people trying to FIND a driver.

    So how do you get the thing working? I assume you know the standard 
password is 0000.

Karl


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