Connecting my Microsoft Bluetooth Desktop

[carpenike]

Hey,

I have a Microsoft Bluetooth Keyboard/Mouse Desktop setup that I'd like to get working inside of Linux. Running Kernel 2.6.11-r6. I think I have the dongle working properly as I can find it when I use hciconfig:

[TerranAce007]

Well in the first place, I wouldn't count on any microsoft hardware working easily in any OS other than windows, but it should work just like any other wired usb mouse or keyboard...

I have a logitech wireless usb mouse that worked right away in gentoo. Knoppix also picks it up too. No configuration needed, just plug in and turn on the mouse. The bluetooth stuff must all be handled within the usb stick - mouse connection, so when it gets to the computer, it acts the same as a wired mouse.

Does the keyboard use the same usb adapter as the mouse?
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[carpenike]

Yes it does...

[TerranAce007]

What is the output of dmesg and lsusb when you plug and unplug the device?

My mouse works without any userspace tools, but I do have at least the basic bluetooth built into the kernel. I don't have my laptop at the moment, so I can't check my exact config, and I'm not sure if the kernel bluetooth stuff was even necessary for the mouse to work. Do you have USB 1.1 or 2.0 on the system, and do you have the correct setup for them (ohci, uhci, ehci...)?

Try booting from the Knoppix cd and see if it auto detects your mouse and/or keyboard when its plugged in at boot and when you hotplug it. Then you can at least know if it works in linux or not...

BTW, do you have coldplug and hotplug configured? If coldplug isn't run at boot and my mouse is plugged in, it won't work.
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[nightfrost]

Not my intention to hijack a thread, or reopen an old one; but I've a similar problem. This is the second time, these last two months, that I've had to install winxp (first time was to update the bios- and compaq had only released bios update software for winxp) and it's getting tedious.

So, I got a bluetooth donlge (targus) and a bluetooth mouse (trust). I've been looking through various howtos and whatnots, following them I've made sure the usb dongle gets detected and I have no error messages anywhere. I've emerged bluez-libs and bluez-utils, I've scanned for the mouse using "hcitool scan" - found it - and tried to connect to it using "hidd --connect ADDRESS". Doing that, I just get "Can't create HID control channel: Operation already in progress".

So, I figured something wasn't linux compatible. I go through the hassle of installnig winxp again. Set things up and get them working. I reboot into linux plug my dongle in and - voila - the mouse if working fine.

So apparently my devices do work under linux. What am I doing wrong here. Why do I get "Can't create HID control channel: Operation already in progress". Why, oh why?

Edit: I tried to reboot in single user mode (init -s), and managed then to connect to the bluetooth mouse with a simple hidd --search. Why is that? Why did it work in init -s and not init 5?

[JavaGeek]

I have the Microsoft bluetooth Intellimouse, and it works great with gentoo, both with the supplied usb dongle and the internal bluetooth from my laptop.

The only problem that I have right now is that I have to manually connect the mouse every time it goes to sleep mode. That means that I have to do 'hidd -c ADDRESS' on my laptop AND press the connect button on the mouse. Is there any configuration that I need so that the mouse can be connected automatically after sleep?

Thanks

[riskable]

hidd will automatically connect to any input devices it finds (assuming it's looking). The way I get it to search for my devices at startup is like so: