I have just bought a Palm BT keyboard and I would like to share my experience in setting it up.

As you know I already have a ThinkOutside BT keyb that is setup properly (before the PR 1.1 upgrade) and works nicely.

Setting up the Palm keyboard took at least 6 hours of my life.
Everything seems to be kind of random: pairing, connecting.

At first I paired it rather quickly and then spent a lot of hours trying to get the N900 to connect to it. In vain. After discovering an error on my part (see my previous post) I got it to connect, but only for a couple of seconds.
I have installed syslog (as advised on this thread) and it showed:

bluetoothd[898]: Encryption failed: Permission denied(0x5)

I have no idea what this means and I couldn't find it on Google.
I have decided to re-pair, because that's what it sounded to me like it might be a problem.

But this time it wouldn't pair. I have must have tried like 20 times, when it finally wanted to pair.

I have quickly issued the dbus-send command and, finally, I could see that the bluetooth sign on N900 became blue and stayed like that.
Typing on the keyboard would be seen in the terminal.

I have closed the keyboard, waited until the N900 dropped the connection and then opened the keyboard again. It reconnected automatically and I could use it again.

So it seems like I have arrived at the same status as with the old one. Only I'm scared like hell to touch anything now, seeing how sensitive setting these up is.

And just to vent: it's amazing how things are regressing instead of moving forward. Instead of building upon the things that were working properly in the previous generation tablets it seems like Nokia is inventing the wheel again and again and again.