USB-wireless peripheral problems

[Keith]

[posted to "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
<ubuntu-users.lists.ubuntu.com> & emailed]
On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 17:58:05 +0100, "Joep L. Blom" <jlblom at neuroweave.nl>
wrote:


> I have a Microsoft wireless keyboard & mouse and since a few kernel 
> updates (I guess since November) first my mouse but now also my keyboard 
> stops working. I have reverted to a cables peripherals which work 
> normally. I therefore suspect something in a driver has changed as the 
> wired peripherals work.


Have you checked the battery? Also transmitters in such devices can easily
fail.