Microsoft Optical Desktop Elite for Bluetooth and dual booting
Hi,
For the last past months I have been searching for a way to use my bluetooth keyboard and mouse in both Windows and Linux with no luck. Most of times I wasn't able to choose Linux with GRUB since the keyboard wasn't working during booting and if I was working in Linux, on the next boot in Windows, I had to re-authenticate my keyboard in order to work.
So, I have to ask one last time before I get another keyboard and mouse: Is there any way to properly use my desktop set in both OSes?
Please don't tell me to search anywhere to find a solution. If you have a suggestion, just write it as explicitly as possible. I promise to write a guide for bluetooth keyboards and dual booting if I finally find a solution.
Thanks in advance,
John
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Marcel Holtmann
maintainerHi John,
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For the last past months I have been searching for a way to use my bluetooth keyboard and mouse in both Windows and Linux with no luck. Most of times I wasn't able to choose Linux with GRUB since the keyboard wasn't working during booting and if I was working in Linux, on the next boot in Windows, I had to re-authenticate my keyboard in order to work.
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So, I have to ask one last time before I get another keyboard and mouse:
Is there any way to properly use my desktop set in both OSes?Please don't tell me to search anywhere to find a solution. If you have a suggestion, just write it as explicitly as possible. I promise to write a guide for bluetooth keyboards and dual booting if I finally find a solution.
pair your device with Linux and then write the link key to the Bluetooth chip with hciconfig. After that it should be possible to use the device in both operating systems.
It is of course also possible to transfer the link keys between both operating systems, but this can get very ugly.
Regards
Marcel
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Quoted 2 lines · Marcel Holtmann
pair your device with Linux and then write the link key to the Bluetooth chip with hciconfig.
Hello again,
And thanks for your quick reply. Having watched some replies in this mailing list I totally agree that transferring the link key from one OS to the other can be difficult.
So, let's get back on the first solution: since sometimes I can use my keyboard in Linux, I suppose my device is sometimes paired, right? If not, which commands exactly I have to use? Then, how to write the link key to the bluetooth chip? Could you make an example of the command hciconfig for writing this key to the chip?
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After that it should be possible to use the device in both operating systems.
And the use of link keys? Both OSes should have the same link keys? I suppose no...
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Marcel Holtmann
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And thanks for your quick reply. Having watched some replies in this mailing list I totally agree that transferring the link key from one OS to the other can be difficult.
So, let's get back on the first solution: since sometimes I can use my keyboard in Linux, I suppose my device is sometimes paired, right? If not, which commands exactly I have to use? Then, how to write the link key to the bluetooth chip? Could you make an example of the command hciconfig for writing this key to the chip?
use "hciconfig hci0 putkey ..." after you paired your keyboard with your Linux machine.
Regards
Marcel
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Hi again,
Quoted 3 lines · Marcel Holtmann
use "hciconfig hci0 putkey ..." after you paired your keyboard with your Linux machine.
Unfortunately, I get the following message:
Can't find link key for etc.
However, I can still use and ping (l2ping) my keyboard. Is it possible that the link key gets erased after the reboot/shutdown?
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