Hello I’m a Linux newbie and I need some help. I’m running fedora on my laptop and I want to connect my Logitech mouse. I got solaar installed but I need to manually install the udev rule. I’m following the Instructions here

So I understand that I need to copy rules.d/42-logitech-unify-permissions.rules from the solaar GitHub and place it in /etc/udev/rules.d the thing I don’t know how to do is get there. I’m not super familiar with the terminal

  • Disgruntled@lemmy.ca
    1·
    19 hours ago

    Hello, fellow newb here. Just out of curiosity, what mouse is it? I installed Solaar on Fedora and it sees my MX Master 3 mouse and Bolt receiver automatically. It even shows the battery in the tray.

  • lichengeese@lemmy.zip
    15·
    3 days ago

    Solaar appears to be available through the Fedora package manager. Among other reasons, using the package manager is preferred because it gives you a mechanism to remove it cleanly, including any system changes such as the udev rule

    https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/solaar/solaar/

    I’m not a Fedora user myself, but I suppose if you open the terminal and run

    sudo dnf install solaar

    This would install both solaar and the udev rule.

    • johnyreeferseed@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      2·
      3 days ago

      I did install it through the package manager. For some reason though my Logitech mouse doesn’t come up on solaar. When I was looking for a reason I found something about the udev and thought that’s what I had to do, I didn’t realize I was reading mac stuff 😅

      • ibot@feddit.org
        1·
        12 hours ago

        I had issues with Solaar detecting my devices when plugging the dongle in a USB hub in the past, even when the connected devices worked. Maybe you can try to connect the dongle to another port, in best case directly on the Notebook or PC mainboard, just to make sure that this is not the issue.

        This being said, it works for me on even with a USB hub on a freshly installed Fedora on a new PC.

      • ace_garp@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 days ago

        First time installing solaar last week. Was from package manager on Trisquel(deb based).

        All installed and detected automatically. Probably the same under Fedora.

        Try a purge/uninstall of solaar, and then put the dongle in before you reinstall.

        (Random aside. If your PC auto-resumes after suspend, it may have picked up a logitech keyboard from another room. Unpair it from your dongle)

        • johnyreeferseed@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
          2·
          2 days ago

          Tried those things, no luck. And no other Logitech things around to connect too. I’m starting to think it might just be a hardware issue. It’s a mouse and keyboard I haven’t used for a while.

          • Jumuta@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            1 day ago

            I’d try:

            • running solaar from the terminals so you get the output log
            • checking what you have in /etc/udev/rules.d
            • johnyreeferseed@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
              1·
              1 day ago

              I honestly don’t know much about terminal, how could I go about doing that? I’m pretty sure this is exactly my problem. I had stumbled on this Reddit thread when looking for a solution. But someone here pointed out that the link lsd_ninja provided was for MAC so I thought I must’ve been on the wrong track. I know I have to copy the file from the GitHub. I just don’t know how to get to the location where it goes.

          • buckykat [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            Is it just the mouse and keyboard that aren’t showing in solaar, or the unifying receiver itself?

            For context, this is what a unifying receiver with a mouse and keyboard paired to it ought to look like in solaar:

            • johnyreeferseed@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
              2·
              2 days ago

              Not even the unifying receiver seems to show up in solaar. When I plug it in I get a notification saying Logitech unifying receiver has been plugged in on my task bar. But then I open solaar and it’s just a blank window. I also tried it on my other PC that’s running bazzite and it’s the exact same thing. I also had 2 unifying receivers and I tried them both just to rule out a broken dongle.

                • johnyreeferseed@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
                  2·
                  1 day ago

                  I tried every USB port, they all detect when the dongle is plugged in but solaar just displays a blank window. I even tried it on my other Linux PC and it had the exact same thing happen . I also had a second dongle so I plugged it in to time rule that the dongle was broken.

                • johnyreeferseed@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
                  2·
                  1 day ago

                  Yes I did, even tried a different PC which is why I think It might be the hardware. I might see if my buddy from work can plug it into his windows PC to see if it works. That way I can definitely know if it’s a hardware issue.