Re: [Bluez-users] Microsoft Optical Desktop for Bluetooth - Help!

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

Hi,

> I've recently bought a new PC which came with Microsoft Optical Desktop
> for Bluetooth set. During setup (both Windows and Linux) I've used a
> normal PS/2 keyboard and everything went OK. The installation of the
> bluetooth devices in Windows was also OK.
> 
> But with Linux, I came up with lots of problems. By trial and error, I
> have managed to use it, but I still have problems. The mouse has no
> problems at all, since no PIN is used for it, but for the bluetooth
> keyboard I had to setup a PIN (using the default pin-helper) which has
> to be the same with the one in Windows.
> 
> Although it works for a while, if you don't press any buttons for some
> time, the connection between keyboard and PC is lost.In addition to
> that, when I exit from Linux, the connection is most of times also lost,
> so I cannot control the boot loader or the BIOS and even worse, I have
> to go into Windows to re-install the keyboard so that I can finally use it.
> 
> Thanks god the mouse always works and therefore, I don't have to connect
> a PS/2 keyboard every time I use Linux.

use a HID proxy dongle (CSR or Broadcom) and write the link key for the
keyboard to the Bluetooth chip itself. See the mailing list archive for
some details, because such a question was raised before.

Regards

Marcel




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