Comment 8 for bug 291051

I found a workaround that does the trick for me. You start wminput or wmgui polling for the wiimote and while it's scanning run "sudo hcitool cc <MAC of Wiimote>" in a terminal it finds the Wiimote correctly, pairs and uses it. That's at least how I get it to run at the moment. I don't know exactly what's wrong but I believe something with the auth/connection in wminput/wmgui must be wrong or at least something with the way they use the backend/stack.