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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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