From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Subject: Re: [Bluez-users] Microsoft Optical Desktop Elite for Bluetooth and dual booting From: Marcel Holtmann To: bluez-users@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: <43E09717.4040405@gmail.com> References: <43E09717.4040405@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1138812167.3806.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: bluez-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: bluez-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Reply-To: bluez-users@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: BlueZ users List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 17:42:47 +0100 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bluez-users mailing list Bluez-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bluez-users