Windows XP SP1 Supports Bluetooth?

[M P]

Hi!

I have a surecom EP-9221-R usb bluetooth dongle and wanting to install to
windows xp sp1 but it seems it cannot detect the usb bluetooth. I tried
installing the dongle to a windows xp sp2 and it work fine without the
manfacturer's driver. Is there any issue on bluetooth on windows xp sp1?

MP

 

[AmericanTechie]

Hi!

I have a surecom EP-9221-R usb bluetooth dongle and wanting to install to
windows xp sp1 but it seems it cannot detect the usb bluetooth. I tried
installing the dongle to a windows xp sp2 and it work fine without the
manfacturer's driver. Is there any issue on bluetooth on windows xp sp1?

MP

If the manufacturer has this device as compatible with Windows XP, there
is no problem. In your case it sounds like it is not Bluetooth that
is a problem, but lack of drivers. Check device manager with the device
plugged in. If there is an unknown device that shows up, then that
could be the device in question. Alternatively the device might show up
with an error. Likely you will have to go to the oem website and
download the driver. It is possible that SP2 has native support for
this device, but a simple driver install would fix this for SP1.

 

[M P]

I have a limited hardware requirement with XP (AMD Athlon 2200+ 256MB RAM)
since SP2 eats much memory and process. I am currently downloading updates
from Surecom and will let you know if it will work.

MP