[Bluez-users] Apple mouse gives me various "Can't get device information" troubles

[Sunnan <sunnan@handgranat.org>]

Hi, everyone,
I'm trying to pair my Apple wireless mouse on my Ubuntu 5.10 iBook with
built in bt; it's been out of use for a while and now nothing works
(maybe some packages messed up or something; the hidd daemon doesn't
start by default anymore, for one). I'm still using bluez-utils 2.20,
hope that's fine.

If I understand correctly, hidd --connect is used for pairing and only
has to be done once (unless it resets somehow), right? Well, it resetted
somehow and now I try to --connect it again.

Whenever I try to do:
hidd --connect 00:0A:95:01:5F:57
I get either
Can't get device information: Host is down
or (slightly more often, but this seems random)
Can't get device information: Permission denied
if the mouse is on, and
Can't get device information: File descriptor in bad state
if the mouse is off.

(When my builtin bt (00:0D:93:04:19:15) is in hid-mode instead of hci, I
get 
Can't get device information: No route to host
but I figure that's "more" wrong so I've been doing most of my testing
with it in hci-mode.)

I've been trying to troubleshoot this for a couple of hours; originally
"bluepin" was crashing so I just replaced it with a small shell script
that echoed "PIN:1234" (got the number from my /etc/bluetooth/pin file,
don't know if that's the number the mouse wants: how do I set it?) which
got rid of the "PIN helper exited abnormally with code 256" issues in
in /var/log/daemon.log

Advice is appreciated,
Sunnan




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