Pairing to a Bluetooth Keyboard fails

[Guest]

The Wizard finds the keyboard, but when it asks me to type in the PIN code,
it fails:

Pairing with device 'Keyboard'
On your Bluetooth keyboard, type the following digits and press the Enter key.

Initiate Pairing
PIN Code: [empty grey box] [greyed out 'Initiate Pairing' button]

[greyed out Back, Next and Cancel buttons]

Any ideas?

 

[Vanguard]

The Wizard finds the keyboard, but when it asks me to type in the
PIN code,
it fails:

Pairing with device 'Keyboard'
On your Bluetooth keyboard, type the following digits and press the
Enter key.

Initiate Pairing
PIN Code: [empty grey box] [greyed out 'Initiate Pairing' button]

[greyed out Back, Next and Cancel buttons]

Any ideas?

You omitted to mention if you even entered anything in the PIN input
textbox. Did you?

http://kb.palmone.com/SRVS/CGI-BIN/...upportKB,ts=Palm_External2001,case=obj(14817)

Did you put the Bluetooth devices into pairing mode?

http://www.bluetooth.com/Bluetooth/Connect/Devices/Generic_Pairing_Instructions.htm


Security?
Pairing is when Bluetooth is vulnerable to hacking, and pairing can be
forced. Bluetooth claims that you are vulnerable for a fraction of a
second, but pairing mode remains enabled until you enter the PIN so
you'd have to type damn fast. See
http://www.bluetooth.com/Bluetooth/Connect/Devices/Generic_Pairing_Instructions.htm
on how the attack can let hackers use your Bluetooth cell phone. The
idea was that the pairing only opened a short window of opportunity
but that was under the presumption the pairing was initiated by the
owner of the device, not by a hacker. While the article is old, so is
the info at http://www.bluetooth.com/Bluetooth/Learn/Security/ which
never mentions that it is no longer the one-time pairing done by the
owner when the hacking could occur.