Enabling your bluetooth mouse

[kobibn]

how so i install a blue tooth mouse ?
i have a toshiba tecraM and everything is working great , but
the f@!#$g mouse is not working ?!

please help

[purehate]

I have a usb wireless mouse that I had to do a "modprobe psmouse" to get working. Not to sure about blue tooth

[kobibn]

no good , thanks

[drgr33n]

1) Open /etc/rc.d/rc.bluetooth.conf and add

HCID_ENABLE=true
HIDD_ENABLE=true

2) Start your bluetooth services

bash /etc/rc.d/rc.bluetooth start

3) Find out your mouses bd_addr

hcitool scan

4) Load the hidp kernel module

modprobe -v hidp

5) Now you can connect to the mouse

hidd --connect <bd_addr>

6) Check your connection

hidd --show

And you are done, hope this helps.

[drgr33n]

just had an email from kobibn

i have just tried to enable my bluetooth mouse

thanks
it worked

Maybe move this post over to the tut's section ??

[Xolamee]

To connect my mouse I only needed to do three steps.

I had to edit my rc.bluetooth.conf the first time I booted backtrack (persistent USB).

Then everytime I boot after that I have to do:

bash /etc/rc.d/rc.bluetooth start
hidd --connect MY:MO:US:EM:AC:AD

Is there a way to do the

bash /etc/rc.d/rc.bluetooth start
hidd --connect MY:MO:US:EM:AC:AD

automatically every time backtrack boots... its a real pain having to do that everytime, even with aliases its still an unecessary step.

I have it setup like this in ubuntu but cannot figure out how to do the same thing in backtrack.

[secure_it]

To connect my mouse I only needed to do three steps.

I had to edit my rc.bluetooth.conf the first time I booted backtrack (persistent USB).

Then everytime I boot after that I have to do:


Is there a way to do the

automatically every time backtrack boots... its a real pain having to do that everytime, even with aliases its still an unecessary step.

I have it setup like this in ubuntu but cannot figure out how to do the same thing in backtrack.

put this into last line of /etc/fstab entry.on booting automatically it would be done for you by script or make a shell script and put these command in script and when u boot the system you need to run this script once.

[Xolamee]

Thanks a lot secure_it. I knew it was something like that but I was getting tired of searching. I'll have to see if it works though... if the mouse isnt in discovery mode it has a hard time connecting (which I realize doesnt make sense because Ubuntu connects to my mouse no problem and I never have to put it in discovery mode)

[Xolamee]

I added those two lines to /etc/fstab but the mouse does not connect on startup even if i have it in discovery mode. If I open a shell though, the last two commands in the history are those two commands...so it looks like it executes them but it still doesn't work. Is there a more standard way of doing this... like editing the bluetooth configuration file?

[secure_it]

I added those two lines to /etc/fstab but the mouse does not connect on startup even if i have it in discovery mode. If I open a shell though, the last two commands in the history are those two commands...so it looks like it executes them but it still doesn't work. Is there a more standard way of doing this... like editing the bluetooth configuration file?

most reliable solution is make a shell script with extension .sh like

vi mouse.sh #put all commands you want to execute without typing again n #again,save and close with :wq

chmod +x #make it executable

sh mouse.sh or ./mouse #everytime when you run pc simply run this #script with one command shot