Re: [Bluez-users] Bluetooth Intellimouse Explorer not working after reboot

Daniel Vollmer
2004-08-23T18:55:05Z

Hello Marcel,

Monday, August 23, 2004, 20:19:16, you wrote:

> Hi Daniel,

>> I am quite unsure where to report this problem, I suspect it's in
>> the init-scripts, but neither am I sure it is a bug so I haven't
>> filed one against bluez-utils.
>>
>> I'm using an Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer for Bluetooth with
>> debian/unstable (kernel 2.6.8-mh1 on a Dell Inspiron with internal
>> bluetooth) and it works fine. But if I reboot the system, the mouse is
>> not working anymore and I find the following (repeated) in my kern.log:
>> kernel: hci_acldata_packet: hci0 ACL packet for unknown connection handle 46
>>
>> The mouse starts workin again if I remove and reinsert its batteries.
>> I suspect the HID connection is not properly severed on shutting down
>> the system.

> it looks like such a problem. Try to put a "hidd -K" in the init script
> and see if that helps.

Putting "$HIDD_DAEMON -K" into stop_hid() in /etc/init.d/bluez-utils
before the start-stop-daemon line has fixed this. I'm CCing this to
Edd, maybe he can add that to the bluez init-script.

> Maybe you also need to set the device to non
> pageable with "hciconfig hci0 noscan" on shutdown.

Didn't try this as the above worked.

Thanks for the excellent work on bluez! It is much appreciated.

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Best regards,
Daniel. http://www.maven.de
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