Need Help- Getting Bluetooth Mouse to connect

[Jim]

Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 12:46:50 -0500
> jim wrote:
>
>   
>> FC10/KDE
>> I have a Bluetooth Mouse that is detected by bluetooth-wizard, but it 
>> won't PAIR.
>> What do I do to get it to PAIR ?
>>
>> Bluetooth Device Manager shows it as detected, but not connected.
>> Trust:  Always trust
>>
>>     
>
> I can't help you, but I can say I fiddled with a bluetooth keyboard
> for a long time and never got it talk without manually poking and
> prodding a bunch of things (I don't even remember what) and then
> I'd have to do the same poking and prodding over again the next
> time (which sort of defeated the purpose of being able to kick back
> across the room with a wireless keyboard).
>
> I finally gave up on trying to operate it as a pure bluetooth device
> and switched to just using the USB dongle that came with it so it
> looks like a USB keyboard.
>
> I have this feeling that all the new bluetooth subsystem was designed
> by folks who never want to do anything but share files with their
> phones and the idea of a "permanent" connection is utterly beyond
> the capability of the bluetooth subsystem.
>
>   
Fedora has had a long hard road with Bluetooth, they would fix it then 
they would break in the next release, then fix it and break it again.   
If I remember right that's the way it has been since FC6.