Unable to detect bluetooth keyboard

dkulinski · 2023-09-20 01:17:48

I own a Feker Alice keyboard that I can't connect to via Linux. I dual boot Arch and Windows 11 and the Windows 11 installation can detect and use the keyboard in Bluetooth mode without issue. Even when re-entering pairing mode on the same BT profile (the keyboard supports 3 connection profiles) it still doesn't detect it, or on any of the other two profiles.

I am currently using kernel Linux prey 6.5.3-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed, 13 Sep 2023 08:37:40 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Here is the dmesg output:

[    7.430444] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.22
[    7.430456] NET: Registered PF_BLUETOOTH protocol family
[    7.430457] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[    7.430459] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[    7.430461] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[    7.430464] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[    7.765588] Bluetooth: hci0: Device setup in 167825 usecs
[    7.765591] Bluetooth: hci0: HCI Enhanced Setup Synchronous Connection command is advertised, but not supported.
[    8.047025] Bluetooth: hci0: AOSP extensions version v0.96
[    8.047028] Bluetooth: hci0: AOSP quality report is not supported
[    8.179114] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[    8.179116] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[    8.179120] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
[    8.179663] Bluetooth: MGMT ver 1.22
[   38.960822] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[   38.960828] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[   38.960830] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11

From lsusb, this is the listed bluetooth adapter:

Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0e8d:0616 MediaTek Inc. Wireless_Device

Current bluetooth packages installed:

bluedevil 1:5.27.8-1
blueman 2.3.5-2
bluez 5.69-1
bluez-libs 5.69-1
bluez-qt 5.110.0-1
bluez-utils-compat 5.69-1

When discovering devices it picks up on our hose timer and my Nvidia Shield streaming device but never the keyboard. Any clues would be great, thank you!

seth · 2023-09-20 07:12:47

3rd link below. Mandatory.
Disable it (it's NOT the BIOS setting!) and reboot windows and linux twice for voodo reasons.

Also https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Blueto … ot_pairing and possibly https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Blueto … th_windows

dkulinski · 2023-09-21 01:44:30

I disabled Windows 11 fast start, have rebooted a few times now in both Linux and Windows and still no luck. I'll keep trying permutations of reboots but it certainly seems like another post you answered where I can see plenty of items in Linux just not the keyboard which I had connected to Windows at one time.

seth · 2023-09-21 06:09:00

trying permutations of reboots

Stop that, that's a longer the problem now (if anything and if the BT is a dongle, re-plug it)
Did you see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Blueto … ot_pairing

That being said, keyboard seems a little bitch: https://www.reddit.com/r/BudgetKeebs/co … pc_or_mac/
Can you still connect it via usb?

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#1 2023-09-20 01:17:48

Unable to detect bluetooth keyboard

#2 2023-09-20 07:12:47

Re: Unable to detect bluetooth keyboard

#3 2023-09-21 01:44:30

Re: Unable to detect bluetooth keyboard

#4 2023-09-21 06:09:00

Re: Unable to detect bluetooth keyboard

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