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

Edit : adding this for any future people having the same issue. I booted up my wife’s old windows 10 PC, downloaded Logitech unifying software and re-paired the mouse and dongle. Put the dongle back into my Linux PC and the mouse is working. Weirdly though solaar still shows nothing but an empty window. But whatever at least the mouse is working.

  • 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·
        2 days 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.