Bluetooth devices

[jj3000]

I have a D-link blue tooth USB adapter. DBT-120.

XPE with SP1.

The drivers installed properly after FBA, no errors at all. But when
I plug in the device the software can't find the BT device, nor the
power light on the adapter comes on. But it does work on the XP pro.

I was wondering if it is because SP1 doesn't support bluetooth stack?
Or am I missing some USB components / some thing else to get this to
work.

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

jj,

This is probably USB related problem.

Go to device manager and see if you have all USB (EHCI, UHCI) drivers installed and functional.
Or check setupapi.log.

Regarding the Bluetooth. Since it is working on your XPP then it can be configured to work on XPe also.

Best regards,
Slobodan

 

[jj3000]

Hi, I have made sure in the windows\system32\drivers directory, the
usbuhci, ehci, ohci sys files are present.

But this did not help the situation any. When the USB BT dongle is
plugged in, it simply does not light up or detect a new device. The
Device manager does refresh though during this though, but I could not
find what has changed.

My next step is to install XP Pro on this specific computer board to
see if it works to isolate that it's not a USB hardware problem. It
worked fine on the desktop computers we have tried.

The installation of the linksys/widcomm drivers went successfully,
however after the installation the device simply isn't detected.

Is this a problem with the lack of bluetooth stack on XPe SP1?
Although it seem like it is still a USB problem.

Thanks in advnace.

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

Hi,

Actually having files present does not guarantee that drivers are working.

You can see like I said in setupapi.log if there were installation errors for drivers.
Also you did not said (at least I did not understand answer) if you saw that drivers are working when looked from device manager.

Test some USB2.0 and USB1.1 devices to see if they are working as expected. Or like you said install XPP and see if it is working.

Is this a problem with the lack of Bluetooth stack on XPe SP1?

It should not be, since you have third-party drivers and services that you said that you already installed. They are intended for
XP/XP SP1, right?

Best regards,
Slobodan

 

[Sven Meirsman]

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

 

[jj3000]

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?

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

Hi JJ,

You would like to add component "Add Hardware Control Panel"?

Anyhow check setupapi.log for missing files. And provide them in appropriate folders in XPe image. This way you won't need "Add
Hardware Control Panel" to ask you for files (actually you won't need Add Hardware Control Panel).

Best regards,
Slobodan

 

[jj3000]

Thanks. I am able to make it work now by changing from minlogon to
windows logon only. Whenever it is using minlogon, it does not work.

(actually, I'm using explorer shell + min logon), But I disable the
windows logon after the dependency check.

Any idea why it is this way?

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

I lost you about what is working.

Bluetooth or "Add Hardware Wizard"?
I thought that you are trying to make BT work?

Regards,
Slobodan

 

[jj3000]

Nevermind that. It appears I have made progress, because the dongle's
power and link light now lit up, but the BT configuration program
still won't start because it says the hardware is not present.

So I will go and read your earlier post about how to possibly make it
work.

 

[knubile]

jj3000,

Did you create the sld file for the bt-120 yourself?
I'm having a tough time getting it done. The import in component
designer doesn't work for it's inf file.
How did you go about doing it? Or better yet, can you share it?