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Vista - Network 'Identifying' Difficulty with Bluetooth MS Driver(s)--Conflict? Vista 64-bit Ultimate

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Old 11-03-2008   #1 (permalink)
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Network 'Identifying' Difficulty with Bluetooth MS Driver(s)--Conflict? Vista 64-bit Ultimate

I was determined today to successfully install my new Bluetooth Microsoft
Notebook Mouse 5000 on my new Sager NP9262 Vista Ultimate 64-bit laptop--and
I finally was. I was already using a new NETGEAR wireless router to the
Internet and HP wireless printer successfully through that router. The
story isn't directly about Bluetooth--but what happened after--except that I
had to revert back to Vista's Bluetooth driver(s) to get the mouse to work
finally. The 3rd party Bluetooth driver(s) that came with the machine and a
'short' I suffered made something easy very difficult.

Once everything was working I noticed that the Networking tray icon was
changing back and forth between locking on to my network and trying to
identify my network. It did this constantly. At the same time after
rebooting I noticed that the network icon stayed red-x'd for about 2 minutes
before this searching began and the red-x disappeared. While the searching
went on continuously I had good Internet and email connectivity and didn't
suspect anything was wrong except for the icon indications.

I talked to NETGEAR at length and we determined that the router is not at
fault. It is something going on between the Vista network and Bluetooth
drivers causing this. In addition I discovered by turning Bluetooth off,
turning off the computer and waiting a 'bit' before rebooting, and then
waiting a 'bit' more before turning Bluetooth on again that I could get a
stable-no 'identifying' network and a working Bluetooth mouse.

I thought I would add my 2 cents here but suspect this is old news for many
of you and hopefully Microsoft is working on the proper solution for 64-bit
Vista. Please feel free to add anything in addition concerning this and/or
concurring with the problem. Thank you.


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