Lenovo Pro Bluetooth Mouse Missing Driver?

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I’ve recently bought a Lenovo Pro Bluetooth mouse for my ThinkPad running Manjaro KDE but it won’t connect via Bluetooth; if I hold down the pairing button on the mouse while it’s trying to connect it does appear to connect and even displays the charge of the device correctly but it won’t input anything (i.e. cursor doesn’t move, buttons don’t register).

Already tried a newer kernel (6.13.3-2) and switching to X11 temporarily but under no circumstances does the mouse work as expected. It works perfectly fine with my Windows PC at work so it’s not a hardware issue.

It also doesn’t seem to work on my main rig that’s also running Manjaro KDE, it seems to me that there’s just no driver for it.

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IMHO: Wifi based mouses are cheap and you avoid these type of gravities.

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Could be a coexist issue between two operating systems.

→ Bluetooth - ArchWiki

See the links at the page bottom

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I’ve tried it first on Linux, though. Another thing is that I for some reason don’t have bluetoothctl despite having installed bluez and its dependencies.

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bluez-utils contains bluetoothctl. You might be better off installing the manjaro-bluetooth meta package which will install bluez-utils as a required dependency:

pamac info manjaro-bluetooth
Name                  : manjaro-bluetooth
Version               : 20221002-1
Description           : Manjaro meta package for complete Bluetooth support
URL                   : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Bluetooth
Licenses              : GPL
Repository            : extra
Groups                : --
Depends On            : bluez bluez-cups bluez-hid2hci bluez-libs bluez-plugins bluez-tools bluez-utils
Optional Dependencies : blueberry: Bluetooth configuration tool
                        bluedevil: Qt Bluetooth frontend [Installed]
                        blueman: A Gtk+ Bluetooth manager
                        pipewire-pulse: PipeWire support [Installed]
                        pulseaudio-bluetooth: PulseAudio support
Required By           : --
Optional For          : --
Provides              : --
Replaces              : --
Conflicts With        : --
Packager              : Mark Wagie <mark@manjaro.org>
Build Date            : Mon 03 Oct 2022 06:17:20
Install Date          : Mon 11 Dec 2023 11:07:15
Install Reason        : Explicitly installed
Validated By          : Signature
Backup files          : --
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Ok, I now have bluetoothctl; when I try to pair the mouse manually via the pair command it says Failed to pair: org.bluez.Error.AuthenticationFailed

Edit: It seems to work now after forgetting the device and re-pairing it. Thanks for helping me out!

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