Re: Bluetooth devices

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From: jj3000 (jeremy_ho_at_my-deja.com)
Date: 10/06/04 

Date: 6 Oct 2004 12:43:16 -0700

Thanks for the suggestions!

I have an update. I used a XPe image that I got from our computer
board supplier, and the driver install successfully and the USB device
is working on that image.

The difference is that their image comes up with "file needed" to
prompt you for a couple of .sys files during the install wizard, and
you would browse it to your extracted driver directory and it would
work fine.

On my build of XPe it would skip it completely. Any idea what I am
missing?

"Sven Meirsman" <Sven.Meirsman_NoSpam@cronos.be> wrote in message news:<#sLKlwGqEHA.596@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl>...
> Hi jj3000,
>
> I have a Sitecom USB Bluetooth dongle that also works with the widcomm
> drivers. I had a lot of troubles getting this damn thing to start too.
> This is how I'm able to get it going:
>
> 1. Try to get to the control panel on your XPE machine (with the dongle
> installed) and start the 'new hardware wizard'. It will look for PnP
> devices, but will not find any. After this select 'I have already installed
> the hardware', select from list, and you will see all hardware devices that
> are found on your system. Now, check if you see a USB device that has this
> exclemation mark with it. (Drivers that aren't correctly intalled) Select
> this device and go on with the wizard. The wizard will not install anything
> and reports back with 'success' immediately. If you now close the wizard,
> the system will detect the dongle and ask you for the drivers. Just point
> the system to the correct driver files. (Check System32\drivers dir,
> System32 and the folder in the "Program Files" that has the widcomm software
> installed. In this folder, you will find a subfolder which has a bin-folder,
> with additional .sys files and so on)
> 2. If you get this ok, go to the control panel and double click the
> 'bluetooth' item. On the last tabpage of this control panel applet, you will
> see if the widcomm drivers are able to identify your dongle. If ok, proceed
> to step 3.
> 3. If this is ok, try double clicking the Bluetooth item on your desktop.
> This will start the initial wizard which lets you detect any bluetooth
> devices in the neighbourhood and pair with them. If this wizard does not
> show, you'll have to start it up using the cmd command line tool by typing
> rundll32.exe BtWizard.dll,ShowWizard
> The ShowWizard parameter is case sensitive, watch out.
> 4. If you are not able to start the bluetooth initial wizard, and you have
> to use the command line equivalent I have shown you in step 3, you will not
> have access to the Bluetooth Neighbourhood neither on the desktop and on 'My
> Computer'. This will not allow you for example to start a Bluetooth Serial
> Port that you had installed right after pairing the device that offers this
> serial port. To get this Serial Port running, see step 5.
> 5. If you need a service that a bluetooth device in your neighbourhood
> offers, start the wizard again with the command line tool, and select the
> second option on the wizard. (something like "I know the service I want to
> use, look for devices that offer this service") Now look for the device,
> select it, next... And now you need to check the 'Start Service' or
> something like that. This will make a connection to the service on your BT
> device and automatically start it right after this wizard. Now you don't
> need to go the the Bluetooth Neighourhood to start the service manually.
> This 'Start Automatically' option is NOT included if you use the first
> option of the wizard to pair to a device. (However, if you still need to
> perform the first option of the wizard becaus you have to pair with the
> device, do not select any services after pairing using this first option,
> just start the wizard again and use option 2 to link to the service and
> start it.)
> If you have linked to the service like I described here, you will not need
> to do this again.
>
> I know, it's not a pretty sight, but it works for my setup.
>
> good luck, and please give some feedback on your progress. I would like to
> know if I'm not alone with this issue.
>
> regards,
> Sven

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