Bluez 5.40 works for me for both Designer keyboard and mouse. At this time Ubuntu has not packaged it up into a DEB but I was able to build and install it myself (search for bluez 5.40 to find how to download the entire large source). I am using Ubuntu 16.04 but a newer kernel made by Ubuntu (4.6.0-040600-generic). It is also important to install the patches Guilhem mentions in #22.
I needed some additional packages to do the build. This is the whole procedure as well as a website that helped me figure this out:
They haven't got everything right yet: both devices, though they work fine, are of unknown type, and syslog is still littered with python failures whenever one of these connects or disconnects.
Bluez 5.40 works for me for both Designer keyboard and mouse. At this time Ubuntu has not packaged it up into a DEB but I was able to build and install it myself (search for bluez 5.40 to find how to download the entire large source). I am using Ubuntu 16.04 but a newer kernel made by Ubuntu (4.6.0- 040600- generic) . It is also important to install the patches Guilhem mentions in #22.
I needed some additional packages to do the build. This is the whole procedure as well as a website that helped me figure this out:
./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir= /usr/share/ man --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir =/var
sudo apt-get install glib2.0
sudo apt-get install libdbus-1-dev
sudo apt-get install libudev-dev
sudo apt-get install libical-dev
sudo apt-get install libreadline-dev
sudo make
sudo make install
(I got help from http:// rrbluetoothx. blogspot. com/2016/ 04/rr-bluetooth -compile- bluez-539. html).
They haven't got everything right yet: both devices, though they work fine, are of unknown type, and syslog is still littered with python failures whenever one of these connects or disconnects.