bluetooth kbd on intel mac mini hardware

[Iain Hibbert]

On Wed, 5 Oct 2011, Raoul wrote:

> > I don't know about intel mac mini hardware, but it sounds as if the normal
> > state is that the Bluetooth controller operates in what is known as HID
> > mode, in that it is pre-paired with the keyboard (or, just finds one to
> > talk to with no pairing) and presents to the host OS as a USB device, so
> > they don't need to do anything about Bluetooth.
>
> may be, but then why two usb devices are detached!
> i have not the box with me, but next time, i will see with usbconfig.

I don't know about that

> > But, what has happened is that the device is now in Bluetooth mode, where
> > it presents as a full Bluetooth controller and expects the host OS to
> > handle the connection stuff.
>
> > The logfile seems to show that the keyboard has connected and is sending
> > data which the OS does not understand, as you do not have bthid running
> > (or indeed, perhaps not even enabled the ubt device or paired)
> isn't bthid compiled in generic by default?
> i think it is. my kernel is generic.

sorry my bad, I mean bthidd (which is a daemon, handles Bluetooth HID
connections and feeds the events back to the kernel)

iain