Wifi menu kills bluetooth connection

This is very weird behaviour. I have a Kaiser Baas bluetooth keyboard with integrated trackpad. I also use wifi to connect to the internet via my modem-router.
Since installing Yosemite, the keyboard looses its connection to my Mac Mini if I move the mouse pointer and hover over the Wifi menu. However, that is only if the Mac Mini was not able to make a wifi connection.
For some reason, my Mac Mini doesn't always see my router's broadcast ssid. When that happens, the wifi menu looks like a giant version of what it looks when connected. I turn wifi off and on and still it can't see my router. Strange because it can see three other wifi spots in my suburb. Then, if I put the Mac Mini to sleep and wake it again, yes, it can see the ssid and connects automatically.
Then, the problem with my bluetooth keyboard is solved too.
Just what is going on with wifi and bluetooth in Yosemite. OS X networking has always been fragile, flaky and temperamental but this is getting especially obtuse.
Has anyone seen this behaviour ?
Garry

Thanks. I'll try a different keyboard-trackpad-mouse and look for more reports on wifi problems. I've not yet found any on theses discussions boards which involve both bluetooth and wifi but, as 10.10 is still young it might be developing.
The Kaiser Baas is not very suited to OS X although they say it is compatible. It works but, the Trackpad prefs pane doesn't recognise it and the mouse pane options don't work very well with it either. So, it could be related to the problem. Still, I don't understand why it should lose the bluetooth connection just because I've accessed the wifi menu.
Cheers.
Garry

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Edit 2: Rebooted and still the same problem. journalctl -xn says nothing about network errors.
Edit 3: Rebooted, and ran journalctl -xn as super user. It now gave relevant information:
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-- Logs begin at sø. 2014-05-25 20:44:50 CEST, end at on. 2014-08-20 19:11:08 CEST. --
aug. 20 19:10:57 3rlend network[27525]: Failed to bring the network up for profile '31'
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-- Subject: Unit [email protected] has failed
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-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
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When I ip link set ... down, I wifi-menu and it connects. No need to ip link set ... up.
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.include /usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
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After=sys-subsystem-net-devices-wlp4s0.device
Not sure if this is relevant. Also mentioned above. This is /usr/lib/network/network.
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. /usr/lib/network/globals
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# $1: potential interface name
is_interface() {
# Strip any old school alias specifier
[[ -d "/sys/class/net/${1%%:?*}" ]]
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# $1: interface type
# $2: interface name
# $3: interface link (optional)
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interface_is_up() {
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start)
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esac
Last edited by rollypolio (2015-02-07 16:37:01)

I honestly don't remember. I believe I was trying to set up i3status dhcp at the time. Could have been the DHCP configuration file I created at /etc/systemd/network that broke my netctl configuration. I should have mentioned that first. I broke the internet and walked away two days ago and it's slowly coming back to me. I don't follow the relation between systemd, netctl, and dhcp configuration so I'm sorry if I'm not picking up on solutions provided in your links.
I commented the file out right after I started receiving those errors.
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#[Match]
#Name=wlp4s0
#[Network]
#DHCP=v4
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drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Feb 5 20:15 ..
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# Prepend hexadecimal keys with \"
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$ ls -la
total 32
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Feb 2 09:32 .
drwxr-xr-x 81 root root 4096 Feb 7 09:42 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 31 22:50 examples
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 13 07:23 hooks
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 13 07:23 interfaces
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 422 Jan 31 22:52 my-network
-rw------- 1 root root 138 Feb 2 09:32 wlp4s0-Nexxt_5F6CB8
-rw------- 1 root root 145 Feb 2 06:36 wlp4s0-SJBS
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Which one should I be looking at?:
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[email protected]
[email protected]
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[email protected]
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To repeat myself, I can connect using wifi-menu after I ip link set wlp4s0 down. I'm just looking for a fix so I can set up automatic connections.
EDIT: I deleted /etc/systemd/network/MyDhcp.network and now it works at startup. Any idea why a commented out file would be having an adverse effect like this?
Last edited by rollypolio (2015-02-07 16:41:41)

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