Bug 466988
Summary: | Trouble pairing with Apple Wireless Pro Keyboard (bluetooth) | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Will Woods <wwoods> |
Component: | bluez-gnome | Assignee: | Bastien Nocera <bnocera> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | rawhide | CC: | bnocera |
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Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2008-10-28 11:24:54 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Will Woods
2008-10-14 21:47:06 UTC
I believe the problem is that we set the PIN to be 0000 for that device, thinking it's an Apple mouse. If that's the case, this build should fix the problem: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=881107 If that doesn't work, I'm getting one such keyboard some time this week hopefully... We discussed on IRC, but for the record - That build doesn't help. The main problem is that the "Please enter the following PIN code: XXXX" prompt doesn't seem to happen until we can connect to the keyboard. Except it seems that bluetooth keyboards - unlike headsets or mice or phones - are not connectable until *after* you type a PIN on them. So with that new build, the Bluetooth Wizard generates a random PIN, but it doesn't show it until the keyboard is connectable - which happens *after* you've typed in a PIN on the keyboard. So unless you guess the PIN before it is shown, the authentication request will always fail. I guess the sequence could go something like: 1) generate random PIN 2) tell user to type that PIN (and Return) on the keyboard, and click Forward when done 3) authenticate/pair with now-ready keyboard, using PIN from step 1 but maybe you can figure out something simpler once you've got some hardware to play with. Received the hardware for it, should have something tomorrow. It's testy, but there's no bugs in the wizard or anywhere on the Linux side. It's just that the device is so badly documented (it came without a single piece of documentation for me) that it doesn't surprise me you had trouble getting it working. I had to remove the batteries for it to allow me to pair again. Leave the power button pressed until the LED was blinking, selected it in the wizard, entered the pin code as requested followed by enter (not sure that's needed?), and there it was paired. I closed the wizard using the newly paired keyboard... The one thing I can do is add documentation for that keyboard... Could you please retest? The battery removal as well as pressing the Return key are definitely needed, this is what the Apple support docs mention: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1809 I'll start putting together documentation on the Fedora wiki. Removing from the F10 desktop target. |