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I have a Microsoft Sculpt Touch bluetooth mouse, and a bluetooth/USB dongle.



I have tried to pair with the mouse by going to System Settings > Bluetooth and clicking on the "+" button to add a device. This launches the Bluetooth New Device Setup wizard, which lists the mouse at the Device Search stage.



I can only click "Continue" on the wizard if I select a PIN option (or tell it not to use one). But I always just see:




Connecting to '(null)'...




...followed by:




Setting up '(null)' failed.




How do I connect to and use the mouse?



The dongle is listed by lsusb as:



Bus 005 Device 002: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)


After plugging it in, dmesg shows:



[  256.876091] usb 5-1: new full-speed USB device number 2 using uhci_hcd
[ 257.132851] Bluetooth: Generic Bluetooth USB driver ver 0.6
[ 257.135389] usbcore: registered new interface driver btusb


I'm using 12.04 with kernel 3.2.0-35-generic.


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This was due to (a) really bad BT/wifi drivers for the Realtek 8723BE chipset in my wifi card and (b) the Sculpt mouse's weird power-saving behaviour. The answer is simply: you can't, in this case. I had to buy a different mouse and wait three years for the kernel to support it.


[#33442] Thursday, March 23, 2023, 1 Year  [reply] [flag answer]
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