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Originally Posted by Thesandlord View Post
On my friends Mac, there is no button to connect to the N810. i.e. there is no way to initiate the connection from the computer. I think he has the latest OS, but he is running a powerPC Mac, not intel.
Does his Mac have BlueTooth? Mine doesn't, but I toss in a BlueTooth USB radio and in the Apple keyboard and it works.

Its fairly easy to set up too. Once you enabled your BlueTooth hardware you configure it. Make your NIT discoverable.

On the Apple you select in BlueTooth that you wish to setup a new device. The confusing part is that you must select 'Any Device' instead of specifically either 'Keyboard' or 'Mouse'. Now you fill in a PIN and this you verify on the NIT. Now they are paired, but not connected, and your Mac does not know the NIT supports HID profile. So for now it has only OBEX (or maybe HSP if you selected Headset as well). To get your Mac to recognize HID profile you select your NIT on the Mac BlueTooth config, you fire up BlueMaemo on the NIT and select Open Connection. Now you go in the BlueTooth config on the Mac and select 'configure this device' or 'update name' or 'update services'. Now it will add the HID as 'BlueZ Keyboard & Mouse' or something like that, and your NIT will say 'connected to <Mac_Name>. Afterwards, disable 'visible' or 'discoverable' on your BlueTooth devices.

Now my NIT can do something my iPod cannot: control my Mac over BlueTooth NIT is suddenly upgraded to a cool remote. Although there is VNC and all kind of daemons for Mac as well, these all use IPv4 networking thus requiring e.g. WiFi.

Disadvantage is that when I take out the BlueTooth USB adapter and toss it in another computer I have to resetup the thing while my NIT thinks its the same computer because of the MAC address of the BlueTooth USB adapter... but hey, it works!!
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