Wacom Bluetooth tablet

From LinuxNewbie

I bought a Wacom Graphire 6x8 Bluetooth Tablet and I wanted to share what I did to get it to work. I was very suprised when I opened the package to find they do not ship a USB dongle. Fortunatly I already have one that works with BlueZ. A Belkin F8T003 ver. 2; It is NOT the same chipset as the F8T001.

I am running Debian, so I first used apt to install bluez. I also googled for kdebluetooth and added the repository for it to /etc/apt/sources.list so I could install it.

After getting bluetooth up (and the above is about all it took) I used hcitool scan to get the address for the pad. For it to show up you must press the button on the bottom to be discoverable.
To connect them, type:

hidd --server
hidd --connect 00:00:00:00:00:00 (but use the real address)

I experienced some "jumping" in KDE. This was resolved by reducing the mouse acceleration to 1.0x in Control Center.

Although there are wacom tablet drivers I couldn't get them to work with bluetooth. This could be a lack of knowledge or incomplete drivers since this pad is new. This technique should work for bluetooth mice also.