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Re: bluetooth keyboard

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On 2020-07-17 21:16, Dan Ritter wrote:
> 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-

added myself to input group but no joy.
keyboard has sticker "Generic Bluetooth Apple keyboard".
I use wireless mouse which Just Works.
Bluetooth Dongle I think was described as for Apple.
keyboard and dongle worked on macmini.
I'd have thought that Blueman would see the adapter.

mick
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bluetooth keyboard mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2020-07-17 21:10 +0200
  Re: bluetooth keyboard Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-07-17 22:20 +0200
    Re: bluetooth keyboard mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2020-07-17 23:30 +0200
      Re: bluetooth keyboard riveravaldez <riveravaldezmail@gmail.com> - 2020-07-18 01:00 +0200
      Re: bluetooth keyboard deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-07-18 02:20 +0200
        Re: bluetooth keyboard mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2020-07-18 14:50 +0200
          Re: bluetooth keyboard deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-07-18 21:10 +0200
            Re: bluetooth keyboard mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2020-07-18 21:40 +0200

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