Bluetooth keyboard on boot (not bios)

I was randomly looking up some stuff about bluetooth keyboards being accessible on boot (was hoping for bios level, but not expecting such) when I stumbled on the below linked thread over at Linux Forums posted and troubleshot by an Arch user. I searched for this info having been posted here in the main forums by that user but it looks like he/she opted to not repost this info. The post was done back in 2008, so I'm not sure how viable it is as of now and i don't have a bluetooth keyboard worthy of testing this out with (the one I own is too crappy to even use, and is being taken back to the store in the morning) so if anyone would test what's posted here and give feedback, that would be great. I'm not the original contributor, but I do feel obligated to share what I have found. So, here you go!:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/hardwa … -boot.html

I've had similar problems, when the batteries were low or I was in a bad reception distance/area. Also other 2.4 GHz devices like wireless phone could distort the signal. Generally bluetooth isn't the most reliable technology to begin with one reason so many wireless mice and keyboards run their own proprietary radio technology.

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