From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: bluez-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bluez-users] Microsoft Optical Desktop Elite for Bluetooth and dual booting
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 17:42:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1138812167.3806.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43E09717.4040405@gmail.com>
Hi John,
> For the last past months I have been searching for a way to use my
> bluetooth keyboard and mouse in both Windows and Linux with no luck.
> Most of times I wasn't able to choose Linux with GRUB since the keyboard
> wasn't working during booting and if I was working in Linux, on the next
> boot in Windows, I had to re-authenticate my keyboard in order to work.
>
> So, I have to ask one last time before I get another keyboard and mouse:
> Is there any way to properly use my desktop set in both OSes?
>
> Please don't tell me to search anywhere to find a solution. If you have
> a suggestion, just write it as explicitly as possible. I promise to
> write a guide for bluetooth keyboards and dual booting if I finally find
> a solution.
pair your device with Linux and then write the link key to the Bluetooth
chip with hciconfig. After that it should be possible to use the device
in both operating systems.
It is of course also possible to transfer the link keys between both
operating systems, but this can get very ugly.
Regards
Marcel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-01 16:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-01 11:10 [Bluez-users] Microsoft Optical Desktop Elite for Bluetooth and dual booting JoKo
2006-02-01 16:42 ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2006-02-01 18:07 ` JoKo
2006-02-01 19:18 ` Marcel Holtmann
2006-02-02 9:09 ` JoKo
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