Bluetooth Keyboard/Mouse combo causes Kernel Panic

It's defiantly a little flaky. I don't receive Kernel Panics, but if I try to shut off the Bluetooth from the menu bar icon, the menu bar icon locks up, and I receive the spinning circle. Nothing else locks up though, just the menu bar. This kit was designed for a windows computer though, so I can understand why its not perfect.

I am using the mouse only, on a MacBook Pro (Penryn, 2.4 GHz, 2GB RAM, 200 GB HD,10.5.2 with latest updates as of 4/16)

I have been using the Mouse (RF-BTMSE2) since I purchased the computer and it has always been a little sketchy, but I originally purchased it for a PC which it worked fine on, as it's supposed since thats what it was designed for.

I have been checking periodiocally for a fix/update/driver, just so its not as flaky but not come across one yet. The closest I have come was a program called SteerMouse. It let me set the sensitivity, as well as speed, of the mouse. In addition it enabled me to use the Left/Right Tilt wheel function which I set as browser forward/back commands (cmd+left arrow/cmd+right arrow).

Hoped that helped a little, I don't know if it will fix your Kernel Panic issue.

Not sure why you are using a BT keyboard. I'm using a stock Logitech V270 BT mouse with my 4 month old MB from day one. Can't stand touchpads. IMHO, the best built-in pointing devise is the IBM thumbstick.

My Loditech mouse was very easy to setup and for the most part, has been trouble free. They are available on the internet for less than $30. The only occasional trouble I have is sometimes when waking the computer up, the BT mouse is "stuck". I have it setup to disregard the touchpad IF a mouse is detected. In this case, it's like "Catch 22". Neither works. Usually if I wait long enough the mouse will start to work, but I don't like to wait. One quick solution is to turn the BT mouse off and wait a few seconds.

In this configuration, the Touchpad will the operate since a BT mouse is not found. I then run the touchpad mouse up to the BT icon, turn the BT mouse off in the pulldown menu, turn the BT mouse back on with the switch on the bottom, turn the BT mouse back on in the pulldown menu and it immediately starts working again.

As I said, the above happens infrequently. I suspect a "Mighty Mouse" might be more trouble free, but I don't like the button operation on them.

I am experiencing a similar issue with my MB and a usb hub attached. Intermittantly if I boot my MB with the usb hub already attached it will hang. If I disconnect the usb hub and then boot all is well, then reconnect the hub after re-booting and it works too. I have external hard drives attached to the hub.

I am having the same problem - I have the aluminum bluetooth keyboard and bluetooth mighty mouse and a MBP.

it seems to be with the keyboard ONLY however - when the mouse connects I get no problems. When the keyboard connects I get kernel panic.

It was happening about 1/5th of the time and then this morning the computer was panicking every time the keyboard connects. Even during startup - the MBP screen is blue, and I see the green light on the keyboard flash to indicate that it is connecting and the MBP freezes.

I am wondering if this has to do with other apps running and maybe using the keyboard.

I have a number of keyboard related apps:

* Quicksilver ( http://blacktree.com/?quicksilver)
* Witch ( http://www.manytricks.com/witch/)
* DoubleCommand ( http://doublecommand.sourceforge.net/)

maybe we can cross ref what is installed to see if it is a common problem?

Okay I just disabled Witch and was able to successfully connect my keyboard. There is an update to version 2.0 and I installed that and I tried reconnecting and everything appears stable. The problem is intermittent though so I will keep monitoring the situation.

I'm getting something similar... thought it was my new ram upgrade, now I think it's the mouse!?!! Baaahhhhh 😐