Bluetooth Mac And The

I figured, the reason for this could be the distance between my Mac and the mouse (about 1.5 meters 5 foot).

Bluetooth Bluetooth In The

I tried turning off Bluetooth in the System Prefs, then plug in the stick, then reactivate Bluetooth and it worked.

But when I restart it seems to use the built-in controller again.

As such, I was no longer able to map Bluetooth adapters to my virtual machines with Parallels or VMWare.

If you hold down the Option key while clicking on the Bluetooth menu icon, the MAC address of the adapter should be different.

Especially with a headset, theres much better sound quality.

Turning off the adapter works fine, but clicking on turned the internal adapter back on.

I had to unplug the adapter, plug it back in, and then turn Bluetooth back on.

Theres a ton of useful tools to debug interference, pairing issues, and so on.

This is the name of your computers internal Bluetooth adapter.

I usually just pay attention to the last two characters).

If the address changes, your computer is definitely using the external adapter.

I trashed it, reboot and then my USB Dongle was finally recognized.

But yeah, go into System Preferences Bluetooth and turn it off.

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