Bluetooth keyboard and booting up bootcamp - HELP!

Hello
I recently decided to upgrade to a apple bluetooth keyboard.
The problem is that when i try to boot up into bootcamp the keyboard is not detected meaning i can hold ALT to go to the OS selection screen.
I am using a Bluetooth dongle since apple decided to make things difficult and stop selling the bluetooth module in store.
Thanks in advance.

I've been strugling with the exact same problem. I haven't gotten the wirelss one to work often in selecting boot drive, but I have always gotten my USB non-apple keyboard to work. Recently I started to really trouble shoot it. I tried another wireless apple keyboard (the one prior to the mini) and it didn't work either. I decided then to call apple care and see their opinion. Sadly, they asked me to take my keyboards in (which I thought was silly considering probability). So then I tested my mini-keyboard on another mac and...it worked flawlessly. There is obviously and issue with either a - the mac pro and bluetooth startup time (maybe it is initializing our devices after the window to hold the key) or b - we just have completely messed up bluetooth chips and it would be an issue regardless of being on the MP. Either way, this is irritating.

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