I have a 2008 mac pro with the aluminum bluetooth wireless keyboard. Everythings been fine for over a year now and then after working in windows today and rebooting into OSX my keyboard wouldn't respond.
What I've tried/observations:
- I know the hardware is working because it still works in windows and for selecting the boot partition (holding option upon start).
- I tried a few restarts and reset the keyboard
- The bluetooth icon isn't showing up at all on my system preferences or my menu bar. If I check "show bluetooth status in the menu bar" it appears and disappears immediately and then unchecks its dialog box
- If I search for bluetooth in my system preferences, I can find the main bluetooth dialog to check the status of existing devices and add new devices. If I try and add a new device I get the message "No bluetooth hardware found: in order to use this application, you must have a bluetooth module. Please verify that your bluetooth hardware is properly attatched to the computer." I don't believe that this is a hardware issue because of the hardwares functioning in windows/boot, although I don't have any ideas for a solution
- Under "about this mac" bluetooth is listed under the hardware contents but if selected displays the message "no information found"
Thanks all for looking, any thoughts would be much appreciated.
What I've tried/observations:
- I know the hardware is working because it still works in windows and for selecting the boot partition (holding option upon start).
- I tried a few restarts and reset the keyboard
- The bluetooth icon isn't showing up at all on my system preferences or my menu bar. If I check "show bluetooth status in the menu bar" it appears and disappears immediately and then unchecks its dialog box
- If I search for bluetooth in my system preferences, I can find the main bluetooth dialog to check the status of existing devices and add new devices. If I try and add a new device I get the message "No bluetooth hardware found: in order to use this application, you must have a bluetooth module. Please verify that your bluetooth hardware is properly attatched to the computer." I don't believe that this is a hardware issue because of the hardwares functioning in windows/boot, although I don't have any ideas for a solution
- Under "about this mac" bluetooth is listed under the hardware contents but if selected displays the message "no information found"
Thanks all for looking, any thoughts would be much appreciated.