Comments on: HowTo: Get a Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook 5000 mouse working under Ubuntu Jaunty.

By: Ronn Goodman

Ronn Goodman — Fri, 28 May 2010 00:12:20 +0000

Thanks a lot. Worked out great and very easy to follow.

By: HyRax

HyRax — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:58:37 +0000

It’s no longer recognised in Windows or Ubuntu?

Your mouse will only pair with one Bluetooth device, and Windows technically represents a second device despite using the same Bluetooth adapter.

Consider putting your Windows setup into a virtual machine and run both environments at once, thus you only have to pair your mouse to your host, eg: Ubuntu, and it will work perfectly with the Windows VM without any further configuration.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:26:14 +0000

Ran Ubuntu 9.19 off a live disk obtained from Linux Pro Magazine. My MS Bluetooth mouse worked just fine under Ubuntu. However,
after returning to Windows (must use for a number of apps), it is no longer recognized no matter what I do. Tried reinsalling drivers, new software, etc. but device no longer seen and will not be discovered when trying to add (new batteries, BIOS BlueTooth settings on etc).

Might there be some setting that I could again preform in Ubuntu to get functionality back when I use windows?

Any suggestions as how to proceed.

By: r

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:40:35 +0000

This solved my problem.

By: devnull

devnull — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:46:05 +0000

Thanks. I just upgraded from Intrepid to Jaunty and my Bluetooth adapter stopped working. This cured my ill.

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:18:59 +0000

It didn’t work for me, the mouse just “disapear” while it’s bonding and I get this error:

“Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.”

By: Agentlien

Agentlien — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:01:10 +0000

Thank you very much for this tutorial!

This finally solved my mouse issues.

By: wereguy2

wereguy2 — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 04:14:26 +0000

Thanks, works perfectly.

By: Mihai Olimpiu

Mihai Olimpiu — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:21:11 +0000

Unfortunatelly blueman does not work on PPC…

By: HyRax

HyRax — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:22:34 +0000

v_dragon, I’ve just today discovered that the mouse works perfectly under the Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Beta release without any need to upgrade the Bluetooth software.

Ubuntu Karmic is due for release at the end of this month (October 29, 2009) so you may find all your woes are resolved by waiting out a few more weeks (or try the Beta – so far I’m finding it fairly stable with only minor quibbles).