Getting Bluetooth devices rediscovered after sleep?

How do I get my laptop to reconnect to a wireless (Bluetooth) keyboard
and mouse after it's been put to sleep, used at another location, and
returned home?

I use an Apple wireless (Bluetooth) keyboard and mouse with my laptop at
my desk -- all works fine. Occasionally I put the iBook to sleep, carry
it somewhere else, and use it there without the mouse or keyboard. When
I wake the iBook at the remote location I usually see some transient
message saying something like "Keyboard not discovered" flash by very
quickly.

When I put the iBook back to sleep, return it to my desk, and awaken it,
the keyboard and mouse don't seem to automatically get re-recognized or
re-discovered and reconnected. I either have to go through the
Bluetooth initial setup procedures for the keyboard and mouse again, or
restart the iBook (which does connect the two units).

Is there a way to make this happen automatically?

AES <> wrote:

> How do I get my laptop to reconnect to a wireless (Bluetooth) keyboard
> and mouse after it's been put to sleep, used at another location, and
> returned home?
>
> I use an Apple wireless (Bluetooth) keyboard and mouse with my laptop at
> my desk -- all works fine. Occasionally I put the iBook to sleep, carry
> it somewhere else, and use it there without the mouse or keyboard. When
> I wake the iBook at the remote location I usually see some transient
> message saying something like "Keyboard not discovered" flash by very
> quickly.
>
> When I put the iBook back to sleep, return it to my desk, and awaken it,
> the keyboard and mouse don't seem to automatically get re-recognized or
> re-discovered and reconnected. I either have to go through the
> Bluetooth initial setup procedures for the keyboard and mouse again, or
> restart the iBook (which does connect the two units).
>
> Is there a way to make this happen automatically?

Make sure that your keyboard and mouse are registered as favourites in
the bluetooth preference panel.

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Mvh./Regards, Niels Jørgen Kruse, Vanløse, Denmark