Bluetooth Dongle question ?

cubaorperu4amonthcubaorperu4amonth
Posted:
in Genius Bar edited January 2014
I just installed a bluetooth dongle to run a wireless Mac Mouse.



Everything works fine except that I am unable to wake

the Mac from sleep when it is connected.



Need to reboot to start.



Anyone know what could cause this ?



TIA

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 3
    meelashmeelash Posts: 1,045member
    This is soooooo a bad time... You probably want to ask again in three or so hours....
  • Reply 2 of 3
    kingofsomewherehotkingofsomewherehot Posts: 4,185member
    As near as I can tell, you can't "Wake from sleep" with a BT dongle (only with installed BT.)



    The option is there, in BT Prefs, but it is greyed-out when BT comes from a dongle.



    edit: ...

    I may have misread your meaning... you should certainly be able to wake the computer from sleep, just not by using the BT keyboard or mouse. A wired device should wake it, or tapping the power button should wake it. If not, then something isn't working the way it ought to... maybe a preferences setting, or maybe a driver conflict ? Try fixing permissions on the startup drive... I really don't know why, but that sometimes fixes tons of little problems.
  • Reply 3 of 3
    cubaorperu4amonthcubaorperu4amonth Posts: 13member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by KingOfSomewhereHot




    As near as I can tell, you can't "Wake from sleep" with a BT dongle (only with installed BT.)



    The option is there, in BT Prefs, but it is greyed-out when BT comes from a dongle.



    This is exactly correct.



    Quote:

    edit: ...

    I may have misread your meaning... you should certainly be able to wake the computer from sleep, just not by using the BT keyboard or mouse. A wired device should wake it, or tapping the power button should wake it. If not, then something isn't working the way it ought to... maybe a preferences setting, or maybe a driver conflict ?



    This is also correct except that a a fixed keyboard (wired)

    will not wake it either if the bluetooth mouse was active

    when it went to sleep.



    Quote:

    Try fixing permissions on the startup drive...

    I really don't know why, but that sometimes fixes

    tons of little problems.



    Thanks but I'm not sure what permissions you mean here.



    Thank you for expressing my problem so well.
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