I think you are right.
We should vote for that bug, by the way.

https://bugs.maemo.org/votes.cgi?act...8483#vote_8483

I am willing to wait to get it right. We want the N900 to be usable by more than the part of the Linux community that is used to loading kernel modules.

After all, I am not sure that my Dad has recovered from the Apple II programming lessons yet, and I would love to recommend this phone to him to replace the Blackberry Storm he already owns. And we're getting closer to where I'd feel comfortable doing that.

I think that being able to attach a bluetooth keyboard such as the Apple Wireless Keyboard is going to make the N900 very popular!

I was not quite able to follow which of all the commands posted I need, and it looks like there is still an outstanding disconnecting bug.

It's been a month since the last post - please have we gotten any further? I've just bought my N900 and I'm dying to use my wireless apple keyboard with it!

I bought a Apple Wireless keyboard yesterday.
It connected to my new n900 without problems.
All I had to do was to enter the blutooth pin on the keyboard and press enter.
All the letter keys work. If I press rigth alt key I get numbers and all other characters that is marked in blue on the n900 keyboard.
It connects to the n900 as an nokia_vndr/rx-51 keyboard.

What i need to solve now is to get a working keymap for swedish characters and to be able to use the numbers and other keys.

Anyone who know how to do that?

Well I made it easy for me. Since the apple keyboard connected as an rx-51 with the US layout, and my n900 uses the swedish finnish layout on the internal keyboard, I went to the folder

/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/nokia_vndr

and edited the file rx-51 and added the following code in the section for xkb_symbols "us":

partial alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols "us" {
include "nokia_vndr/rx-51(english_base)"
include "nokia_vndr/rx-51(arrows_4btns)"

name[Group1] = "U.S. English";
key <AE01> { [ 1, exclam, NoSymbol, exclamdown ] };
key <AE02> { [ 2, quotedbl, at, rightdoublequotemark ] };
key <AE03> { [ 3, numbersign, sterling, guillemotright ] };
key <AE04> { [ 4, currency, dollar, guillemotleft ] };
key <AE05> { [ 5, percent, U2030, leftdoublequotemark ] };
key <AE06> { [ 6, ampersand, singlelowquotemark, doublelowquotemark ] };
key <AE07> { [ 7, slash, braceleft, NoSymbol ] };
key <AE08> { [ 8, parenleft, bracketleft, less ] };
key <AE09> { [ 9, parenright, bracketright, greater ] };
key <AE10> { [ 0, equal, braceright, degree ] };
key <AE11> { [ plus, question, backslash, questiondown ] };
key <AE12> { [ dead_acute, dead_grave, dead_cedilla, dead_ogonek ] };
key <AD11> { [ aring, Aring, dead_doubleacute, dead_abovering ] };
key <AD12> { [ dead_diaeresis, dead_circumflex, dead_tilde, dead_macron ] };
key <AC10> { [ odiaeresis, Odiaeresis, oslash, Oslash ] };
key <AC11> { [ adiaeresis, Adiaeresis, ae, AE ] };
key <BKSL> { [ apostrophe, asterisk, dead_caron, dead_breve ] };
key <LSGT> { [ less, greater, bar, NoSymbol ] };
key <AB08> { [ comma, semicolon, rightsinglequotemark, leftsinglequotemark ] };
key <AB09> { [ period, colon, dead_belowdot, dead_abovedot ] };
key <AB10> { [ minus, underscore, endash, dead_belowcomma ] };
};

So now Im up and running and kan use all the alphanumeric keys.
Some tweaks has still to be done. Right shift does not work. < > is on the wrong key and I haven't started to look into assigning the function keys yet.

Wow, I just bought the Apple Wireless Keyboard and it didn't seem to work. It took awhile to get it listed under Bluetooth devices, but now it won't pair or connect.

Is there a way you managed to have it connect as "nokia_vndr/rx-51 keyboard"?

I have an Apple wireless keyboard as well.

I got it to pair successfully and is listed under blue-tooth devices.

However, I am unable to get it to connect to the N900.

The "connect/disconnect" button under "edit" is dimmed "disconnect".

Can anyone give step -by-step instructions on how they got theirs working ?

Okay I've spent a few weekends on this and managed to follow almost every instruction to try get this to work. My Apple keyboard still refuses to show up when I call:

hildon-im-xkbtool --list

Which means I cannot run the setxkb command. So all I'm waiting for now is for axonpoet (or someone with the skills to compile kernels) to publish the kernel package that was talked about 5 months ago.

I upgraded to PR1.2 last week which encouraged me to waste another weekend going through the threads trying to get the Apple Keyboard to work. However it still doesn't. The only thing I haven't tried is compiling kernels myself but I'd rather leave it to the experts.

I bought an Apple Bluetooth keyboard today and I did not get it to work as well (at first).

The trick did to pair it several times (and remove it from the list in between for sure

Then some time it got connected! Then I finished the steps here:

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=38372&page=18

to get a proper layout.

Great, I am very happy that it works now!

Hi sfs
I just followed the steps from your link.
The keyboard ist peering fine - but I only get the "us" layout working properly, doing a setxkbmap -device 4 -I -I/usr/share/X11/xkb-chinook -rules base -model pc105 -layout de is giving this error: Error loading new keyboard description. I did a cp -i xkb-chinook/symbols/de xkb/symbols/. before.

Did you get the German version working?

regards, endrik