Hi All, I've got an annoying little problem at present - I'm sure the solution is simple - but its eluding me :(
I got one of the new wireless keyboards with my new 27" i7 iMac - no problems there, all working fine. However, since I do a lot of spreadsheet work and I am used to having a numbers keypad, I have gone back to using a wired keyboard (the one from my previous 24" iMac) - again no problems, all working fine. Today I had call to fire up the old 24" iMac - but the keyboard is plugged into the back of the new machine - so I thought I'd just use the wireless keyboard - and that's where my problems start. Bluetooth is working fine on the 24" iMac (wireless mighty mouse connected and working) but for the life of me I can't connect to the wireless keyboard - it just can't find it (I borrowed another USB keyboard while I tried to sort it out). At first, I thought I'd found the problem - when I switched on the wireless keyboard, it connected automatically to the new 27" iMac (which it had been originally set-up to work with) - so I know the keyboard is OK but thought that, being connected to the 27", it wasn't available to any other computer - so I disconnected the keyboard from the 27" (from the bluetooth menu) and tried again to connect from the 24" - but no joy. I must admit, I don't understand the whole on/off sleep/wake green light set-up on these keyboards. When I press the on/off switch, the green light always comes on for a few seconds and then goes out - so I even tried pressing the switch again while the 24" was "looking" for a keyboard to connect to - however this just reconnected the keyboard to the 27"! To prevent the 27" "getting in first" I even tried switching the 27" off (after disconnecting the keyboard) and trying again from the 24" - no joy. So, the situation seems to be: The keyboard works fine (with the 27" iMac) Bluetooth works fine on the 24" The 24" cannot "see" the keyboard I have never had problems moving wireless mice from one computer to another (& back again) - why is the keyboard different. The 27" is running 10.6.3 and the 24" is currently running 10.5.8 - could that be relevant - though Apple says it's perfect for ANY Bluetooth-enabled Mac (running 10.5.8 or later). Do I have to unpair the 27" and keyboard somehow? (never had to for a mouse). Like I say, the solution is probably simple - anyone got it?? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
