Bluetooth KB have to enter new passkey everytime

[smarteyeball]

Ok, this getting a little old fast.

Symptom: Bluetooth Keyboard is seen by both Vista and Seven but will not work until I enter a new passkey in Bluetooth devices.

If I set a passkey in Vista for my bluetooth keyboard and then boot into 7, I have to set a passkey in 7 because they KB doesn't work.

Once I get the KB working in 7 and then boot back to Vista, the KB has stopped in Vista again requiring me to enter a new passkey.

This is getting tedious.

Any ideas?

 

[mansrm81]

Are dual booting.

 

[smarteyeball]

Yep. Tri-booting actually. Vista / 7 / Opensuse.

I just booted into 7 and surprise, surprise KB not working. I actually have to remove the device and re-discover it in 7.

 

[mansrm81]

Sounds like 7 is changing the Vista settings. Do you have to remove it in Vista too.

 

[smarteyeball]

No, just assign a new passkey.

I have to be careful making changes in 7 as it does impact on Vista a fair bit.

 

[darkassain]

ouch sad to hear....

opps reread and now i understand your post....

i believe this is a limitation on the hardware and the OS....

 

[smarteyeball]

Your could be right DA. Thinking about it, I believe it may be more of a hardware limitation.

I recall now that it did it to me with Ubuntu 8.10 as well. It's suddenly more noticeable now that I'm swapping between Vista and 7 more than usual.

Although it never did it to me with Ubuntu 7.10, 8.04 or opensuse 11 which i had on my old PC, although the KB, mouse and dongle are the same :huh:

The mouse has no issues since it requires no passkey. I guess I'm going to have to stick with my backup PS/2 KB after all

 

[Mark]

You could always try using 7 as your primary OS and stop switching so much.

 

[pedroren]

Hi!
I'm having a similar problem, win7 is my only os right now, but everytime I try to use the keyboard it asks me for "the" pairing code.
I can't remove the device, and it doesnt show on the add device list when I try to pair it again.
Could somebody help me?

 

[jonathanbarrick]

I am having a different problem. windows 7 is automatically installing the new device which is a bluetooth home stereo without giving me the option of enter a passkey. Windows says the device install correctly but the stereo says it didn't. On another laptop using vista it install, i enter the passkey of 0000 and it works perfectly.

Any Ideas?

 

[Submarine]

Ok, this getting a little old fast.

Symptom: Bluetooth Keyboard is seen by both Vista and Seven but will not work until I enter a new passkey in Bluetooth devices.

If I set a passkey in Vista for my bluetooth keyboard and then boot into 7, I have to set a passkey in 7 because they KB doesn't work.

Once I get the KB working in 7 and then boot back to Vista, the KB has stopped in Vista again requiring me to enter a new passkey.

This is getting tedious.

Any ideas?

Having exactly the same problem after installing Dell Quick Set to get my Hot Keys and Volume Control working. Anybody found a solution to this problem??

 

[Submarine]

OK, this is my conclusion. Could never get my Dell Bluetooth keyboard to work without entering a new passkey everytime I shifted OS. Binned it. First tested a Microsoft Bluetooth keyboard, not that I had much hope that would work any better, but as the seller promised I could replace it if it did not, I thought it worth trying. Same problem. Yet I found a simple way to trick it into letting me choose passkey myself, and choosing the same for both Vista and W7, it did not work. Maybe because Vista is 32 bit and W7 64?

Replaced it with a Logitech Cordless MX 3200 and this works perfectly. As my SSD problems seems solved too, it seems I am now all set. So it seems Bluetooth is nothing for a dual boot system.