Re: bluetooth keyboard
mick crane wrote:
> hello,
> somebody gave me an old macmini and a bluetooth keyboard.
> I don't know anything about bluetooth.
> I'd like to use the keyboard with buster because the wired keyboard wire is
> not long enough.
> I got a usb bluetooth dongle (whatever they are called)
> The kernel seems to see it from dmesg
>
> [ 84.976912] usb 3-2: new low-speed USB device number 3 using uhci_hcd
> [ 85.173975] usb 3-2: New USB device found, idVendor=046d, idProduct=c31c,
> bcdDevice=64.00
> [ 85.173979] usb 3-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2,
> SerialNumber=0
> [ 85.173982] usb 3-2: Product: USB Keyboard
> [ 85.173984] usb 3-2: Manufacturer: Logitech
> [ 85.210624] input: Logitech USB Keyboard as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.1/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0/0003:046D:C31C.0002/input/input20
> [ 85.269388] hid-generic 0003:046D:C31C.0002: input,hidraw1: USB HID v1.10
> Keyboard [Logitech USB Keyboard] on usb-0000:00:1a.1-2/input0
> [ 85.303712] input: Logitech USB Keyboard Consumer Control as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.1/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.1/0003:046D:C31C.0003/input/input21
> [ 85.361073] input: Logitech USB Keyboard System Control as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.1/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.1/0003:046D:C31C.0003/input/input22
> [ 85.361251] hid-generic 0003:046D:C31C.0003: input,hidraw2: USB HID v1.10
> Device [Logitech USB Keyboard] on usb-0000:00:1a.1-2/input1
That's not a bluetooth keyboard. That's a Logitech proprietary
dongle wireless keyboard. Nothing wrong with that.
Since the kernel sees it as a HID (human interface device), it
should be a keyboard already.
> what to do to enable the adapter and get keyboard working ?
It should be working. If you're in X, maybe you don't have
permissions to use /dev/input/* ? Put yourself in the input
group.
-dsr-
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