In my previous post on my beloved r3610 I mentioned that I was unable to make the bundled wireless keyboard work. I assumed wrongly that the dongle was built into the machine, however after cleaning up my things I found the manual and discovered that the required dongle can be found inside the mouse’s battery bay. Once you can dug it out of it’s holding place, unplug your existing keyboard and insert the dongle in an empty USB port on the Revo then hold the connect button on the keyboard for a few seconds and voila your machine now has a working wireless keyboard.
The same approach should work with the mouse but I have used a trackball for years and love it to death so I haven’t tested this.
I hope this is helpful to other people.
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Thank you very much for this post. I never would have guessed that and the original document (including acer website) did mention this small and significant info!
thanks!
Who would have thought that reading the instructions was a good idea?
I never do that with any new gadget, I consider that the device should be as self-explanatory through use and experimentation that I don’t have to rely on a printed guide. Never the less I do indeed feel a tad stupid, however I must not be alone looking at the search terms people use to get to my humble blog it seems a common problem.
As for the keyboard, I am very happy with the wirelessness of it all having never owed one before. The size takes a bit of getting used to as it is the same rough size as a netbook keyboard however the damning flaw has to be that it tends to lose characters in the air occasionally. You have to continually check that every key stroke makes it to the screen which lessens the pleasurable computing experience. This however has not been a sufficiently big problem for me to warrant yelling at Acer or going back to my clunky wired keyboard. The second problem I noticed is that the keys aren’t that durable, a smoker friend of mine accidentally dropped a tiny bit of hot ash on the keyboard and now my spacebar has a little pit. Not that keyboards as a general rule should be expected to stand up to every kind of abuse including fire but despite quick reaction certain, I suspect rather common, accidents will damage the keyboard.