Comment 5 for bug 307349

Hello,

I am now trying to use the same Microsoft mouse under the latest supported release of Ubuntu (9.10) on the same Lenovo laptop. I am still unable to make the mouse work properly with this machine. In fact, I can no longer get the machine to recognize the mouse at all, apparently.

If I click on the Bluetooth icon in the top right of the screen, I get a menu which shows 'Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000' under 'Devices'. This is presumably a left-over from my earlier attempts to get it to work (with 8.10). Choosing 'Connect' with the mouse nearby and active does nothing.

If I choose 'Se tup new device...' I can get to the 'Device search' window which shows 'Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse' on the first line (even though the mouse is now turned off!) and a spinning icon next to 'Searching for devices...' which just seems to stay there forever.

I can however highlight the mouse line ('Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse') and then the forward button becomes active. Clicking that immediately takes me to a new window which says 'Device Setup Failed' with a message 'Setting up 'Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000' failed. From there the only options are 'Restart setup' (which does the same bs all over again) and Close.

So it appears to still 'know about' a mouse that is switched off, it can't connect to it when it is switched on, and it can't see it when it is in 'visible' mode. In short it is impossible to use this mouse with this machine under Ubuntu 9.10.