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Slick (slick666) wrote : Re: [Mactel-support] [Bug 281580] Re: [Intrepid] New Bluetooth Wizard fails to pair with devices: reintroduce hidd

I had issues with the package when I installed it. I started getting all
sorts of errors when resuming and blue tooth never worked after a resume.
This was on a MacBook 1,1

On May 28, 2010 11:34 AM, "Eshwar Andhavarapu" <email address hidden> wrote:

Hi,
has anybody tried using blueman package? I'm using it on lucid when i faced
problems with automatic reconnection. Works like a charm for me! unfortunate
that such functionality is not in the standard bluetooth manager!

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[Intrepid] New Bluetooth Wizard fails to pair with devices: reintroduce hidd
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/281580
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Status in Mactel Support: Invalid
Status in “bluez” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released

Bug description:
Binary package hint: bluez

With the latest updates to Intrepid testing, the new bluetooth device setup
wizard (which is an excellent improvement over the previous setup methods)
fails to pair with my Apple Keyboard (pre-aluminum, broadcom based). No
debug information or error messages are given other than "failed to pair".

Further making this an issue is the fact that the recent bluetooth updates
also removed the hidd binary from Ubuntu (again).

This method seems to be the only thing that works for Apple Bluetooth
Keyboards recently:
http://idebian.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/manage-hid-bluetooth-devices-in-linux/

Notice that it requires hci to be reset, but cannot use hid2hci to do this.
The keyboard was working fine previous to the update using the method in the
above link.

Removing reliable and useful software from the repos that can be useful for
workarounds when new software is introduced is not a good idea. The hidd
binary has been removed several times from Ubuntu and each time it has been
requested that it is put back. Please make this binary available in the
repos via other means so that it can be used as a fallback in the future.

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