Keyboard - how?

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <20091226.231514.519459540419527384.imp at bsdimp.com>
            M. Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> writes:
: OK.  I must be pathologically dense...
: 
: I've tried to get my apple mini keyboard working with my machine.  I'm
: so close.  I'm getting the following messages on the console:
: 
: kbd2 at vkbd16
: kbd2 at vkbd17
: kbd2 at vkbd18
: kbd2 at vkbd19
: kbd2 at vkbd20
: kbd2 at vkbd21
: kbd2 at vkbd22
: kbd2 at vkbd23
: kbd2 at vkbd24
: 
: but don't know what to do next.  Typing on the keyboard doesn't do a
: dang thing.  Oh, while typing this message, I have a few more:
: 
: kbd2 at vkbd25
: kbd2 at vkbd26
: kbd2 at vkbd27
: kbd2 at vkbd28
: kbd2 at vkbd29
: 
: What's up?

/var/log/messages is telling me:

Dec 26 23:29:02 lighthouse bthidd[638]: Opening outbound session for 00:1d:4f:a6:ce:b1 (new_device=1, reconnect_initiate=1)
Dec 26 23:29:02 lighthouse kernel: kbd2 at vkbd68
Dec 26 23:29:07 lighthouse bthidd[638]: Could not connect to 00:1d:4f:a6:ce:b1. Host is down (64)
Dec 26 23:29:15 lighthouse sudo:      imp : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/hp/imp ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/vi /etc/bluetooth/hcsecd.conf
Dec 26 23:29:22 lighthouse bthidd[638]: Opening outbound session for 00:1d:4f:a6:ce:b1 (new_device=1, reconnect_initiate=1)
Dec 26 23:29:22 lighthouse kernel: kbd2 at vkbd69
Dec 26 23:29:37 lighthouse sudo:      imp : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/hp/imp ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/killall hcsecd
Dec 26 23:29:37 lighthouse hcsecd[1559]: Could not remove PID file /var/run/hcsecd.pid. No such file or directory (2)
Dec 26 23:29:46 lighthouse sudo:      imp : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/hp/imp ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/hcsecd -f /etc/bluetooth/hcsecd.conf
Dec 26 23:30:34 lighthouse wpa_supplicant[1209]: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS 
Dec 26 23:30:44 lighthouse bthidd[638]: Could not connect to 00:1d:4f:a6:ce:b1. Operation timed out (60)
Dec 26 23:31:02 lighthouse bthidd[638]: Opening outbound session for 00:1d:4f:a6:ce:b1 (new_device=1, reconnect_initiate=1)
Dec 26 23:31:02 lighthouse kernel: kbd2 at vkbd70
Dec 26 23:31:07 lighthouse bthidd[638]: Could not connect to 00:1d:4f:a6:ce:b1. Host is down (64)
Dec 26 23:31:22 lighthouse bthidd[638]: Opening outbound session for 00:1d:4f:a6:ce:b1 (new_device=1, reconnect_initiate=1)
Dec 26 23:31:22 lighthouse kernel: kbd2 at vkbd71
Dec 26 23:31:27 lighthouse bthidd[638]: Could not connect to 00:1d:4f:a6:ce:b1. Host is down (64)

how can I know if I've properly authenticated?

Warner