apple wireless keyboard

Bluez-users Simone Crippa 3 participants 4 messages Jun 11, 2004 – Jun 14, 2004 Bluetooth drivers

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Simone Crippa

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2004-06-11 18:44 UTC #0 lore raw

Hello list,

I bought a shiny new Apple Wireless Keyboard last week because I like to type on a "big" keyboard using my laptop, but I "hate" tethers!!!

Before buying it I quickly looked in the net to discover that it is indeed possible. After a deeper search for some information I discovered that it is not a very well documented task (either Google_Groups, Newsgroups, ...).

I found _some_ information on this list some weeks ago, but it didn't really help me a lot. So I thought, I might contact Marcel Holtmann directly, who seems to know quite a bit about it :-)

But since I don't want to bother him with my simple questions, I thought maybe someone very, very kind on this list might have faced my same problems before ... :-)

What I have:

- Apple Keyboard
- HP nx7000 laptop with built-in Bluetooth
- bluez-utils + libs 2.7 (Debian unstable)
- hidp module from mh3 patch on 2.6.6 kernel

What works so far:

- PIN authentification (othewise no info!!)

- synchronisation over Bluetooth with Palm (so, Bluetooth connection works!)

- hcitool info <BD-keyboard> (gives out lots of funny HW info! ... "Broadcom Corp."???)

- Palm finds Apple Keyboard (so, Bluetooth in keyboard works)

What does not work:

- hidd -s give out either:

	Searching ...
	Connecting to device 00:0A:95:39:67:0F
	Can't create HID control channel: Host is down
  or:
	Connecting to device 00:0A:95:39:67:0F
	Can't create HID control channel: Device or resource busy

or:
No devices in range or visible

not in that order, pick what you prefer ... which is kind of funny, since I touch nothing on the keyboard and the output changes continuosly.

I tried to look at "hcidump -x" for some info ... but I cannot find a clue! (btw: thanks to Marcel ... "hcidump -x" helped me for the PIN-auth problem!!!)

Thanks for your patience, Simone

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Collin R. Mulliner

2004-06-14 12:31 UTC #1 lore raw

Hi Simone,

quick answer is: the apple wireless keyboard works 100% with bluez-hidd.

I had to active authentication (on the laptop side), then just wait until you get the bluepin popup asking for a pin, type in the pin on the laptop side and on the apple wireless keyboard (press enter after entering the pin!).

hidd runs with the --server option

... Collin

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Marcel Holtmann

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2004-06-14 23:29 UTC #2 lore raw

Hi Collin,

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quick answer is: the apple wireless keyboard works 100% with bluez-hidd.
I had to active authentication (on the laptop side), then just wait until you get the bluepin popup asking for a pin, type in the pin on the laptop side and on the apple wireless keyboard (press enter after entering the pin!).

I only had to set auth once for the initial connection to the keyboard. After that I never needed it again. It will request authentication and set the encryption by itself on reconnect.

Regards

Marcel

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Marcel Holtmann

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2004-06-14 16:16 UTC #3 lore raw

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Hi Simone,

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I bought a shiny new Apple Wireless Keyboard last week because I like to type on a "big" keyboard using my laptop, but I "hate" tethers!!!

the Apple HID devices are a little bit problematic. May someone will write a nice howto for using them with hidp + hidd?

Regards

Marcel

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