Pairing Bluetooth Keyboard on Windows and Linux using the same receiver
Dennis GuseFound a solution on the web with authenticated connections here (the original description is far more detailed).
Short description (so that it is still available for me ;) ):
- Pair with (each) Linux
- Pair with Windows
- Extract authentication key from Windows from windows registry (stored in Windows/System32/config/system) using libhivex-bin
- Decode the content of xml-entity with Base64
- Replace Linux authentication key with the extracteted version Linux /var/lib/bluetooth/RECEIVERID/linkkeys
- Restart Bluetooth service
I can confirm that this works using Ubuntu 12.10 and Windows 8 with a Apple Wireless Keyboard.
Alternative solution without authentication (I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND THIS FOR A KEYBOARD) can be found here.
UPDATE: Still works with 13.04