Mac Mini & Wireless Keyboard

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Mac Mini & Wireless Keyboard

I'm fairly new to the workings of a Mac so appologies if this is a dumb question.

I have recently purchased a new Mac Mini with a wireless keyboard & Magic trackpad. Both of these connect and appear to work without any problems.

If i go into system preferences then the trackpad I can click onto 'setup bluetooth trackpad" it shows that the trackpad is paired and everthing appears OK.

However if I do the same for the keyboard i get the message that it is waiting for the bluetooth keyboard to connect. Then tells me that no keyboard can be found.

This is obviously not the case as I am using the keyboard to type this question.

As far as i am aware I have the latest version of Lion and everthing appearst to up to date.

Any help gratefully received.

Stuart

Mac mini (Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)

Posted on Mar 15, 2012 1:47 PM

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Answer 1

BDAqua

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Mar 15, 2012 2:07 PM in response to Stub27

Hi there & welcome... hopefully it isn't a dumb question... I have no idea! 😉

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Eric.

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Mar 15, 2012 3:15 PM in response to Stub27

Stub27 wrote:

However if I do the same for the keyboard i get the message that it is waiting for the bluetooth keyboard to connect. Then tells me that no keyboard can be found.

This is obviously not the case as I am using the keyboard to type this question.

Do you need to press something on the wireless keyboard to put it in "pairing/discoverable mode"? Ooo, just checked, I think so:

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1569

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1809

That probably explains the message. The keyboard isn't in "pairing/discoverable mode", broadcasting that's it's available. If you want to pair it again then you'll need to put it in pairing/discoverable mode, even if it's already paired. But it's something to remember if you want to pair it with another future Mac.

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