Vista - Bluetooth for VISTA -

Has anyone found a USB to Bluetooth dongle that works with VISTA Ultimate?

I have not had any luck and need to find a Bluetooth solution for the HP
DV9260sr laptop.

Any hints are appreciated.

There are lots of BT adapters that works on Ultimate. You need to find one
that is using either a Toshiba stack or a Broadcom/Widcomm stack. I am
using
a BT2.0 USB from Level1 (Toshiba stack) on my Ultimate x64 and it works
fine. I have also tried a belkin BT2.0 adapter (Broadcom). I personally
think that Toshiba is more stable nowadays with their BT stack
implementations. And Most of the laptop built-ins that I see are using
Toshiba stack based internal bluetooth solutions as well.


"Karl H Geng" <n1dl@bizswfla.rr.com> wrote in message
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> Has anyone found a USB to Bluetooth dongle that works with VISTA Ultimate?
>
> I have not had any luck and need to find a Bluetooth solution for the HP
> DV9260sr laptop.
>
> Any hints are appreciated.
>

thanks for your response. I looked up everything I could find on both the
Toshiba and Belkin.
But I could find no reference to Vista with these products. XT seems to be
the last OS supported.
Can you give me the exact model number of the adapter you use successfully
with the VISTA operating system please.
There certainly isn't much of a knowledge base out there for VISTA related
drivers and PC accessories that work with this OS.
sometimes I feel like:
"the blind leading the blind"


"mlai" <mlai@community.nopam> wrote in message
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> There are lots of BT adapters that works on Ultimate. You need to find
> one that is using either a Toshiba stack or a Broadcom/Widcomm stack. I
> am using
> a BT2.0 USB from Level1 (Toshiba stack) on my Ultimate x64 and it works
> fine. I have also tried a belkin BT2.0 adapter (Broadcom). I personally
> think that Toshiba is more stable nowadays with their BT stack
> implementations. And Most of the laptop built-ins that I see are using
> Toshiba stack based internal bluetooth solutions as well.
>
>
> "Karl H Geng" <n1dl@bizswfla.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:eU9BM5ITHHA.1180@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> Has anyone found a USB to Bluetooth dongle that works with VISTA
>> Ultimate?
>>
>> I have not had any luck and need to find a Bluetooth solution for the HP
>> DV9260sr laptop.
>>
>> Any hints are appreciated.
>>
>

"Karl H Geng" <n1dl@bizswfla.rr.com> wrote in message
news:eeSLmhLTHHA.5016@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> thanks for your response. I looked up everything I could find on both the
> Toshiba and Belkin.
> But I could find no reference to Vista with these products. XT seems to be
> the last OS supported.
> Can you give me the exact model number of the adapter you use successfully
> with the VISTA operating system please.
> There certainly isn't much of a knowledge base out there for VISTA related
> drivers and PC accessories that work with this OS.
> sometimes I feel like:
> "the blind leading the blind"
>
>
> "mlai" <mlai@community.nopam> wrote in message
> news:76F0C7D4-7981-4A60-B984-0ECE95DFB298@microsoft.com...
>> There are lots of BT adapters that works on Ultimate. You need to find
>> one that is using either a Toshiba stack or a Broadcom/Widcomm stack. I
>> am using
>> a BT2.0 USB from Level1 (Toshiba stack) on my Ultimate x64 and it works
>> fine. I have also tried a belkin BT2.0 adapter (Broadcom). I personally
>> think that Toshiba is more stable nowadays with their BT stack
>> implementations. And Most of the laptop built-ins that I see are using
>> Toshiba stack based internal bluetooth solutions as well.
>>
>>
>> "Karl H Geng" <n1dl@bizswfla.rr.com> wrote in message
>> news:eU9BM5ITHHA.1180@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>> Has anyone found a USB to Bluetooth dongle that works with VISTA
>>> Ultimate?
>>>
>>> I have not had any luck and need to find a Bluetooth solution for the HP
>>> DV9260sr laptop.
>>>
>>> Any hints are appreciated.
>>>
>>
>

www.BlueSoleil.com---Be the best Bluetooth software

This is the one i use.

"David Garner" <david.garner37@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:PRnzh.4284$Uy5.1753@newsfe2-win.ntli.net...
>
> "Karl H Geng" <n1dl@bizswfla.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:eeSLmhLTHHA.5016@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> thanks for your response. I looked up everything I could find on both the
>> Toshiba and Belkin.
>> But I could find no reference to Vista with these products. XT seems to be
>> the last OS supported.
>> Can you give me the exact model number of the adapter you use successfully
>> with the VISTA operating system please.
>> There certainly isn't much of a knowledge base out there for VISTA related
>> drivers and PC accessories that work with this OS.
>> sometimes I feel like:
>> "the blind leading the blind"
>>
>>
>> "mlai" <mlai@community.nopam> wrote in message
>> news:76F0C7D4-7981-4A60-B984-0ECE95DFB298@microsoft.com...
>>> There are lots of BT adapters that works on Ultimate. You need to find
>>> one that is using either a Toshiba stack or a Broadcom/Widcomm stack. I
>>> am using
>>> a BT2.0 USB from Level1 (Toshiba stack) on my Ultimate x64 and it works
>>> fine. I have also tried a belkin BT2.0 adapter (Broadcom). I personally
>>> think that Toshiba is more stable nowadays with their BT stack
>>> implementations. And Most of the laptop built-ins that I see are using
>>> Toshiba stack based internal bluetooth solutions as well.
>>>
>>>
>>> "Karl H Geng" <n1dl@bizswfla.rr.com> wrote in message
>>> news:eU9BM5ITHHA.1180@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>>> Has anyone found a USB to Bluetooth dongle that works with VISTA
>>>> Ultimate?
>>>>
>>>> I have not had any luck and need to find a Bluetooth solution for the HP
>>>> DV9260sr laptop.
>>>>
>>>> Any hints are appreciated.
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
> www.BlueSoleil.com---Be the best Bluetooth software
>
> This is the one i use.

Dave, that is a very bad link. Remove the three dashes and the "Be" and it
will work.
You might correct it and repost?

Donald McDaniel

On Feb 10, 1:07 pm, "David Garner" <david.garne...@ntlworld.com>
wrote:
> "Karl H Geng" <n...@bizswfla.rr.com> wrote in messagenews:eeSLmhLTHHA.5016@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>
>
>
> > thanks for your response. I looked up everything I could find on both the
> > Toshiba and Belkin.
> > But I could find no reference toVistawith these products. XT seems to be
> > the last OS supported.
> > Can you give me the exact model number of the adapter you use successfully
> > with theVISTAoperating system please.
> > There certainly isn't much of a knowledge base out there forVISTArelated
> > drivers and PC accessories that work with this OS.
> > sometimes I feel like:
> > "the blind leading the blind"
>
> > "mlai" <m...@community.nopam> wrote in message
> >news:76F0C7D4-7981-4A60-B984-0ECE95DFB298@microsoft.com...
> >> There are lots of BT adapters that works on Ultimate. You need to find
> >> one that is using either a Toshiba stack or a Broadcom/Widcomm stack. I
> >> am using
> >> a BT2.0 USB from Level1 (Toshiba stack) on my Ultimate x64 and it works
> >> fine. I have also tried a belkin BT2.0 adapter (Broadcom). I personally
> >> think that Toshiba is more stable nowadays with their BT stack
> >> implementations. And Most of the laptop built-ins that I see are using
> >> Toshiba stack based internalbluetoothsolutions as well.
>
> >> "Karl H Geng" <n...@bizswfla.rr.com> wrote in message
> >>news:eU9BM5ITHHA.1180@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> >>> Has anyone found a USB toBluetoothdonglethat works withVISTA
> >>> Ultimate?
>
> >>> I have not had any luck and need to find aBluetoothsolution for the HP
> >>> DV9260sr laptop.
>
> >>> Any hints are appreciated.
>
> www.BlueSoleil.com---Bethe bestBluetoothsoftware
>
> This is the one i use.

I tried installing this and everytime I opened the software the
computer crashed on me. So i uninstalled it promptly. What version
of the driver did you install?

Matt

Karl,

I just installed the bluetooth software for Belkin's class 1 dongle,
tonight. I went to www.belkin.com - support and downloaded the latest
drivers for F8TO12 dongle. It is a class 1 USB radio that works great
(100M). The drivers are a little difficult to install, I had to 'unzip' them
and execute 'Inst' in the win32 sub-directory but they went in fine for Vista
64. I contacted Belkin before I started and they said that there were no
issue (but I found they wouldn't install directly from the menu?!??).

I am able to pair with all of my bluetooth devices in Vista 64 (I think that
is SUCCESS!!!).

Regards

"Karl H Geng" wrote:

> Has anyone found a USB to Bluetooth dongle that works with VISTA Ultimate?
>
> I have not had any luck and need to find a Bluetooth solution for the HP
> DV9260sr laptop.
>
> Any hints are appreciated.
>
>

"joke" <joke@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B57EC72E-0592-4044-A7D6-A14B17349495@microsoft.com...
> Karl,
>
> I just installed the bluetooth software for Belkin's class 1 dongle,
> tonight. I went to www.belkin.com - support and downloaded the latest
> drivers for F8TO12 dongle. It is a class 1 USB radio that works great
> (100M). The drivers are a little difficult to install, I had to 'unzip'
> them
> and execute 'Inst' in the win32 sub-directory but they went in fine for
> Vista
> 64. I contacted Belkin before I started and they said that there were no
> issue (but I found they wouldn't install directly from the menu?!??).
>
> I am able to pair with all of my bluetooth devices in Vista 64 (I think
> that
> is SUCCESS!!!).

It completely depends on the hardware you plan to use with it. If you don’t
have a profile for your device then it simply will not work.

You can download and use the Broadcom driver/stack for that dongle and gain
even more success. I couldn't get my Motorola headset to work with it until
I installed the Broadcom stuff.

"Karl H Geng" wrote:

My ASUS Bluetooth drops out when playing music to my plantronics headset.
I have tried all the ASUS Vista drivers but no good so cant recommend ASUS
bluetooth WL-BTD201M. I think it runs out of stack all the time.
Steve - From a land down under

"Karl H Geng" wrote: