Thinkpad bluetooth mouse !! SOLVED :)

[paf077]

Hi everyone,
 I just came back from a 4 year hiatus. In the last 2 weeks I have tried 4 or 5 distros, and decided to come back to arguably the best one. So I installed 2011.9 as dual boot with win xp which I must use for work. If i can get everything working in virtualbox I'll get rid of the dual boot.
 Now for my problem, I can't get my bluetooth  mouse working. The bluedevil pops up if I move the mouse and when I click "authorise and trust" it doesn't do anything. If i try to configure it, the add device does not see it even if it's in discovery mode.
I have searched the forums, but the only solution I found does not work. If someone can give me specific instructions to get it working I'd be very happy.  I got my touchpad to work with Tex's tips. But I have not found a soloution for my mouse.

System is as follows:  
Lenovo Thinkpad T500, Intel 2.53 ghz dual core, 3 gigs DDR3 memory,  Ati Hd3650 mobility, 750 gb Seagate 7200rpm hdd, intel 5300bgn wifi, bluetooth, and a Thinkpad bluetooth 3 button + scroll mouse.

Paf.

[rubentje1991]

Is it possible to give the link containing the advice "that didn't work" (=> then we know what you've already tried) 

[paf077]

It's this post where he says it just started when he checked it in dolphin.

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,92874.0.html


Paf

[AndrzejL]

One thing I would recommend is to see if the bluetoothd is running. Actually just start it by issuing:

Code:

su -c "bluetoothd -u"

Next I would check if there is a pairing button on the mouse. Most of the mouses have a button that You hold for x amount of time and then they become visible for the bluetooth stack. Once You are sure that the mouse is visible for the bluetooth device run this command:

Code:

hcitool scan

[andrzejl@icsserver ~]$ hcitool scan
Scanning ...
        00:1C:35:62:88:83       AndrzejL N73
[andrzejl@icsserver ~]$

as You can see it found my phone without a problem.

Once You confirmed that the mouse is detected try pairing it with the BlueDevil.

Just in case You are wondering - those are all the bluetooth packages I have installed:

[andrzejl@icsserver ~]$ rpm -qa | grep blue
python-pybluez-0.18-2pclos2011
bluez-4.93-2pclos2011
libbluez3-4.93-2pclos2011
bluez-firmware-1.2-1pclos2010
gnome-bluetooth-2.32.0-1pclos2010
bluedevil-1.1-2pclos2011
bluez-pin-0.30-12pclos2010
pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-0.9.23-1pclos2011
libbluedevil1-1.8.1-2pclos2011
[andrzejl@icsserver ~]$

I actually do not own a bluetooth mouse so I cannot help more but I hope that I have helped at least a bit.

Regards.

Andy

[paf077]

Yes the bluetooth stack is running, the bluedevil sees the mouse and asks to trust and authorise, but it won't pair. the pairing button is on the bottom of the mouse  but it still doesn't pair up. I'll check which pakages are installed and report back. The funny thing is that it works fine on other distros in live-cd mode, Fedora, another distro, Mint, OpenSuse, and Knoppix. So i was sure it would work on PCLinuxOS.

Thanks Andy for the reply,

Paf

[paf077]

There's something wrong somewhere because PCC and Dolphin see it "Thinkpad Bluetooth Laser Mouse with enhanced data rate ll. Blue devil sees it also but it won't connect. I uninstalled Blue Devil packages rebooted and re-installed Blue Devil, of which there are only 2, Rebooted.  It's still the same.

Here are the packages on my system

Code:

[paul@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa | grep blue
bluedevil-1.1-2pclos2011
bluez-pin-0.30-12pclos2010
libbluez3-4.93-2pclos2011
bluez-firmware-1.2-1pclos2010
libbluedevil1-1.8.1-2pclos2011
bluez-4.93-2pclos2011
[paul@localhost ~]$

Can somebody tell me what I'm missing here???

Paf

[AS]

There's something wrong somewhere because PCC and Dolphin see it "Thinkpad Bluetooth Laser Mouse with enhanced data rate ll. Blue devil sees it also but it won't connect. I uninstalled Blue Devil packages rebooted and re-installed Blue Devil, of which there are only 2, Rebooted.  It's still the same.

Here are the packages on my system

Code:

[paul@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa | grep blue
bluedevil-1.1-2pclos2011
bluez-pin-0.30-12pclos2010
libbluez3-4.93-2pclos2011
bluez-firmware-1.2-1pclos2010
libbluedevil1-1.8.1-2pclos2011
bluez-4.93-2pclos2011
[paul@localhost ~]$

Can somebody tell me what I'm missing here???

Paf

Very probably you are not missing anything, I have the same set installed:

rpm -qa | grep blue
bluez-firmware-1.2-1pclos2010
bluedevil-1.1-2pclos2011
bluez-4.93-2pclos2011
bluez-pin-0.30-12pclos2010
libbluez3-4.93-2pclos2011
libbluedevil1-1.8.1-2pclos2011

I also have had some issue setting the bluetooth mouse, try to ignore the messages that request for authorization, press the discover button on mouse, and go to straight to the bluetooth applet, there right click the mouse and select "Add Device".

AS

[timeth]

Hey paf077,

I had A LOT of trouble with my Thinkpad and my bluetooth mouse. Same problem you described with Blue devil.

The bluedevil pops up if I move the mouse and when I click "authorise and trust" it doesn't do anything. If i try to configure it, the add device does not see it even if it's in discovery mode.

I got it working when I tried Blueman instead of Blue devil.

[paf077]

Hey paf077,

I had A LOT of trouble with my Thinkpad and my bluetooth mouse. Same problem you described with Blue devil.

Quote from: paf077 on Yesterday at 11:59:15 AM
The bluedevil pops up if I move the mouse and when I click "authorise and trust" it doesn't do anything. If i try to configure it, the add device does not see it even if it's in discovery mode.


I got it working when I tried Blueman instead of Blue devil.

Thank You very much timeth . 

I installed Blueman and it found it and it Works!!!

 Now to see if I can get Win Xp to work in Virtualbox...and get rid of the dual boot.
 

NB. This  should be added to the Tips and Tricks  thread. 

Paf