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Re:Wireless Is a Trap by Legogris on Sunday June 21, 2020 @07:08AM (#23591333)
I think this differs per keyboard. The dongle of my Logitech diNovo Edge is Bluetooth.
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Re:Wireless Is a Trap by busterarm on Sunday June 21, 2020 @11:33AM (#23592546)
Right. Those old diNovos are a nightmare as well and not only did they ship with their own Bluetooth adapter but required you to install their driver which would install its own Bluetooth stack (the Broadcom one and they used to use I think BlueSoleil before that) over the Microsoft one.

I still have nightmares about those things failing to pair constantly.

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Re:Wireless Is a Trap by Legogris on Thursday June 25, 2020 @10:32PM (#23648121)
It's many years ago so may be inaccurate, but I remember the dongle being the one stable solution. With the onboard BT of a raspberry pi on Ubuntu (or was it Raspbian?), recurring issues. With the dongle, perfectly stable, and IIRC no drivers not in the mainline repos.
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