Comment 7 for bug 291051

I just played around with it a little more and I found that when I first start wminput or wmgui and start the polling and THEN simultaneously in the terminal run "sudo hcitool cc <mac of wiimote>" I get a connection as usual. I don't have a single clue what's happening but I believe something in the wmgui/wminput code isn't authorizing with the Wiimote correctly so you have to force hcitool to do it for you.

At least this way I can get my Wiimote to connect via bluetooth on a 2.6.27-11-generic Kernel with the btusb module.