[karmic] unable to pair with MS bluetooth Laser Mouse 8000

[nhasian]

Binary package hint: bluetooth

Unable to pair Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse 8000 via bluetooth in Ubuntu 8.10 Karmic Koala Alpha 2 using the Bluetooth Applet 1.8. it finds the mouse (which is setup to be paired) and i choose the pairing key 0000 and it says that it pairs successfully but my mouse continues blinking waiting to get paired.

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

Hi, thanks for the bug report. So first thing's first, what bluez daemon version is installed? Can you make sure you have the latest?

Next, karmic will soon be switching focus to the gnome-bluetooth applet (rather than bluez-gnome). Can you install that, and then logout/in and see if it's any better for you?

If not, then can you attach the latest /var/log/daemon.log with the trouble pairing?

[Mihai Olimpiu Cristian (mihaiolimpiucristian)]

This seems like https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bluez/+bug/343727 bug for Jaunty!

Hopefully this can give more insight and someone will fix it ... eventually... I really hoped Karmic will fix it!

Try the sudo hidd --search command (requires installing bluez-compatibility package - if it's still available in karmic)

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

*dont* use hidd in karmic to try to solve this! That is just a bandaid
and not going to solve the problem.

On 06/16/2009, Mihai Olimpiu Cristian <email address hidden> wrote:
> This seems like
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bluez/+bug/343727 bug for
> Jaunty!
>
> Hopefully this can give more insight and someone will fix it ...
> eventually... I really hoped Karmic will fix it!
>
> Try the sudo hidd --search command (requires installing bluez-
> compatibility package - if it's still available in karmic)
>
> --
> [karmic] unable to pair with MS bluetooth Laser Mouse 8000
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/386224
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[SpmP (scarletpimpernal)]

I had the same issue, Its resolved by choosing a 2.6.28 kernel from the grub menu. The rpoblem was with 2.6.31, havnt tried 2.6.30.
 Same result with bluez 4.45 from ubuntu, and 4.46 from bluez git. (havnt patched kernel or anything silly like that yet, maybee try that if not much movement here)

[fimbulvetr (fimbulvetr)]

Yes, this is almost certainly a duplicate of:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bluez/+bug/343727

As the above mentioned symptoms are exactly what 386224 describes, and the workaround in 343727 solves them.