Installing Bluetooth mouse in Ubuntu

If you haven’t read about my DELL studio 15, read it here…

After installing Ubuntu, i felt it very annoying to work with the touch pad, so i decied to enable my DELL bluetooth traveller mouse with it. Its really handy to work with that. I tried to default method to add BT devices but it failed. At the bottom of the mouse they specify the pin as ‘0000’, but its of no use. After googling i found out the way how to do it. Well i cant explain the stuff since i’m a newbie with this. I commands i typed in the Terminal as given in bold italics red…

root@niju-dell:~# hcitool scan
Scanning …
    00:07:61:EF:4B:49    Dell BT Travel Mouse
root@niju-dell:~# hcitool cc 00:07:61:EF:4B:49
root@niju-dell:~# hcitool auth 00:07:61:EF:4B:49
Not connected.
root@niju-dell:~# hcitool info 00:07:61:EF:4B:49
Requesting information …
    BD Address:  00:07:61:EF:4B:49
    Device Name: Dell BT Travel Mouse
    LMP Version: 2.0 (0×3) LMP Subversion: 0×229
    Manufacturer: Broadcom Corporation (15)
    Features: 0xbc 0×02 0×04 0×38 0×08 0×00 0×00 0×00
        <encryption> <slot offset> <timing accuracy> <role switch>
        <sniff mode> <RSSI> <power control> <enhanced iscan>
        <interlaced iscan> <interlaced pscan> <AFH cap. slave>
root@niju-dell:~# hidd –connect 00:07:61:EF:4B:49
The program ‘hidd’ is currently not installed.  You can install it by typing:
apt-get install bluez-compat
bash: hidd: command not found
root@niju-dell:~# apt-get install bluez-compat
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information… Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  bluez-compat
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 170 not upgraded.
Need to get 53.2kB of archives.
After this operation, 193kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/universe bluez-compat 4.32-0ubuntu4.1 [53.2kB]
Fetched 53.2kB in 2s (24.6kB/s)     
Selecting previously deselected package bluez-compat.
(Reading database … 124034 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking bluez-compat (from …/bluez-compat_4.32-0ubuntu4.1_i386.deb) …
Processing triggers for man-db …
Setting up bluez-compat (4.32-0ubuntu4.1) …
root@niju-dell:~# hidd –connect 00:07:61:EF:4B:49
root@niju-dell:~#

Done…

I found an interesting blog post by Neena Nair on Ubuntu