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
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 😅
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.
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)
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.
I’d try:
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.
Try unplugging and replugging your logitech dongle, sometimes solaar needs to see the dongle appear to figure out that it’s there.
Tried that, no luck. 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.
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:
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.
I’d check with other USB ports then. If the receiver is not even detected, it’s often a defective USB port.
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.
Silly question, but you have tried turning the computer off and back on again, right?
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.