Wireless Keyboard & Mouse

[Douglas Kosovic]

Hi Bert,

> I'm looking to add a wireless keyboard and mouse to my Dell Precision
> 390 system running Linux (RHEL 4 WS Update 6).
> 
> I've been looking at the Dell site but - of course - none of the
> wireless keyboards state they work with Linux.

Using the bundled Dell USB BT receiver, the Dell BT mouse and keyboard
fallback to USB emulated devices if you don't enabled them with the BT
stack:

$ lsusb
Bus 003 Device 004: ID 046d:c70a Logitech, Inc. 
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 046d:c70e Logitech, Inc. 
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 046d:0b02 Logitech, Inc. BT Mini-Receiver (HID
proxy mode)

They appear to be Logitech OEM devices and I had no issues running them
as emulated USB devices with linux, the BIOS POST screen. I can't
remember if they were running as USB or BT devices with WinXP, but they
worked.


Cheers,
Doug