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From: Wes Groleau on 15 May 2010 08:32 (Who said what has gotten scrambled, and I'm too lazy to edit it to correctness) >>>> I know very little about BlueTooth. >>>> >>>> Bought a nice keyboard, and went through a not bad but non-trivial >>>> "pairing" procedure. Then I used the keyboard for several hours. >>>> >>>> Tonight, it doesn't work. The Macbook knows it's there, but typing on >>>> it has no effect. >>>> >>>> Pressing the "connect" button doesn't do anything. >>> >>> Infant mortality? >> >> I shouldn't say it does _nothing_. If I press connect on the keyboard, >> the little LED near it blinks for a while. And the keyboard _is_ at >> least doing handshaking with the Mac, i.e., for discovery and >> identification. But either the keyboard is not sending keystrokes, or >> OS X is ignoring them. > > It's perfectly possible for the Bluetooth part to be fine, while the > keyboard scanning part is defective. >> >> The (hopefully) one-time fix he suggested was to remove and replace the >> batteries. > > Not a bad idea; hope it works. Didn't work. I am going to see whether I can re-run the initialization (pairing). Absolutely no troubleshooting info in the papework, and it's fortunate I'm not a complete idiot, because if I had taken literally the Mac text during pairing, I'd still be waiting for something from the keyboard, which, having neither display nor speakers, it is not able to give. :-) OK, delete and re-pair worked. I hope I don't have to do that every time I boot up. I noticed something I forgot about the first time. One of the steps is to enter a pass-key on the keyboard, eight digits assigned by the Mac. After doing that, Mac says it can't identify the keyboard and makes me type some keys. Then it offers three keyboard types to choose from, and I pick the default. Does "can't identify keyboard" mean that there was some flaw in the pairing, or "can't identify keyboard TYPE" ? Since I got this Macbook, the lack of the delete key and the need to use two keys for page down have been irritating. OTOH, now I have to break the habit of reaching over the BTKB to type on the Macbook. :-) -- Wes Groleau Quote from a learning log http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/barrett?itemid=1386
From: isw on 15 May 2010 12:53
In article <hsm48s$9ld$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Wes Groleau <Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> wrote: > (Who said what has gotten scrambled, and I'm too lazy to edit it to > correctness) > >>>> I know very little about BlueTooth. > >>>> > >>>> Bought a nice keyboard, and went through a not bad but non-trivial > >>>> "pairing" procedure. Then I used the keyboard for several hours. > >>>> > >>>> Tonight, it doesn't work. The Macbook knows it's there, but typing on > >>>> it has no effect. > >>>> > >>>> Pressing the "connect" button doesn't do anything. > >>> > >>> Infant mortality? > >> > >> I shouldn't say it does _nothing_. If I press connect on the keyboard, > >> the little LED near it blinks for a while. And the keyboard _is_ at > >> least doing handshaking with the Mac, i.e., for discovery and > >> identification. But either the keyboard is not sending keystrokes, or > >> OS X is ignoring them. > > > > It's perfectly possible for the Bluetooth part to be fine, while the > > keyboard scanning part is defective. > >> > >> The (hopefully) one-time fix he suggested was to remove and replace the > >> batteries. > > > > Not a bad idea; hope it works. > > Didn't work. I am going to see whether I can re-run the initialization > (pairing). Absolutely no troubleshooting info in the papework, and > it's fortunate I'm not a complete idiot, because if I had taken > literally the Mac text during pairing, I'd still be waiting for > something from the keyboard, which, having neither display nor > speakers, it is not able to give. :-) > > OK, delete and re-pair worked. I hope I don't have to do that every > time I boot up. I noticed something I forgot about the first time. > One of the steps is to enter a pass-key on the keyboard, eight digits > assigned by the Mac. After doing that, Mac says it can't identify > the keyboard and makes me type some keys. Then it offers three > keyboard types to choose from, and I pick the default. Does "can't > identify keyboard" mean that there was some flaw in the pairing, > or "can't identify keyboard TYPE" ? The latter. The Mac wants to know where certain "special" keys are located. Isaac |