Bluetooth Device Services

[Ian]

I use a Bluetooth dongle to syncronise my Sony Errisson
with Outlook.

Using the drivers supplied with the dongle I get access
to a whole range of OBEX file transfer type services.

I decided to try to use the XP SP2 drivers for the dongle
and do not seem to be able to get access to the whole
range of service. The only three I can select is dial-up-
networking and serial ports, however, if I follow the
instructions in kb:815038 it demonstrates that XP SP2 is
aware of the additional services.

Does anybody now how I can get to these additional
services without reverting to the original drivers.

Regards

Ian

 

[Robin Walker]

I use a Bluetooth dongle to syncronise my Sony Errisson
with Outlook.

Using the drivers supplied with the dongle I get access
to a whole range of OBEX file transfer type services.

I decided to try to use the XP SP2 drivers for the dongle
and do not seem to be able to get access to the whole
range of service. The only three I can select is dial-up-
networking and serial ports, however, if I follow the
instructions in kb:815038 it demonstrates that XP SP2 is
aware of the additional services.

Does anybody now how I can get to these additional
services without reverting to the original drivers.

The Microsoft Bluetooth drivers provided with SP2 support only a sub-set of
the possible Bluetooth services that your Bluetooth devices could in
principle support. Third-party drivers provided with your dongle (commonly
derived from the WIDCOMM stack) will typically support a much larger set of
services. You can easily revert to the original drivers, which have not
been overwritten by SP2.

Just click Update Driver, take the route where you specify the exact source
(have disk), and browse to the .INF file for your 3rd-party driver
installation.

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----


The Microsoft Bluetooth drivers provided with SP2 support only a sub-set of
the possible Bluetooth services that your Bluetooth devices could in
principle support. Third-party drivers provided with your dongle (commonly
derived from the WIDCOMM stack) will typically support a much larger set of
services. You can easily revert to the original drivers, which have not
been overwritten by SP2.

Just click Update Driver, take the route where you specify the exact source
(have disk), and browse to the .INF file for your 3rd- party driver
installation.

--
Robin Walker
(e-mail address removed)


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Robin

Thank you. I'd guessed that was probably going to be my
only option; it was nice to have it confirmed.

Regards