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January 20th, 2017 08:00
Getting an Aurora Bluetooth to work under Windows 10
Hi All,
I don't know if anyone else had this problem, or found another solution, but I recently had problems getting the built in bluetooth adapter to work under Windows 10 on my Aurora.
Below is the process I had to follow to get it working - which was a pain. If there's a better way, can anyone offer a suggestion to save the work next time?
First, none of the drivers I found on any forums worked. I had to go looking for hardware support for the actual controller itself. Dell don't seem to support it anymore, so it was a bit of a struggle to find other software that would complete the necessary steps to support it.
Here's what I needed to do to fix it. I'll post anything I remember in case it helps others.
1) It's a bcm92046md bluetooth module. There's a lot of common drivers for it. It's USB powered and it would be easier to rewire the cable to a USB port on the front of the Aurora ALX case and stick a low-profile bluetooth USB adapter in there than to get the stock unit working. All that needs is a bit of solder and a USB socket on the original cable. But there are drivers available for the stock one still.
2) Dell make Windows 8 drivers that open up to a full install package for the Bluetooth.
http://www.dell.com/support/home/au/en/audhs1/Drivers/DriversDetails?driverId=7YM1R
These can be opened but can't be installed...
You will find them unzipped by the process at: C:\dell\drivers\R274729
This contains Win7 and Vista drivers. They are for the Inspiron, but that's OK - We're talking about the BCM92046MD drivers here.
3) Locate the correct drivers in the device manager - They will show up in HID as USB Input Device - There are 2.
USB\VID_413C&PID_8161
and
USB\VID_413C&PID_8162
"Update Driver" for both, and locate the 274729 directory.
That's the hardest part done. Now reboot.
4) Now, the next step, download: http://support.lenovo.com/au/en/downloads/ds031759
This is the Broadcom driver for the chips for Windows 10. This step might work as the first step for some, but I had to do the three above-steps first... I might have made a mistake though, so I'm posting everything I did to make it work.
The filename for me was: h0wz07ww.exe and it mentions different chipsets to the one we need, but for some reason it came up on searches for the chipset.
You will find the drivers in C:\DRIVERS\WIN\Bluetooth after you install it - you can run the setup from here if it doesn't already work.
Once the above was done, it made it through the FULL install of the drivers in a single process ( unzipping, installing, detecting etc ).
Still doesn't work after this so it's time to reboot for the second time.
On reboot, Bluetooth came straight up, was in the notifications area with the B logo, and I could access Bluetooth under devices.
If all goes well, then this should install the Bluetooth drivers for Windows 10. I find it doesn't recognize every bluetooth device I have - it doesn't even see quite a few. However others it sees reliable and without issue and connects to them without issue or incident. My phone is fine, and one of my keyboards. My dell keyboard doesn't like it. Neither does my VR Bluetooth controller.
I hope this helps - I tried to write down exactly what happened. I have an older Aurora ALX with a 960 Chip and 24g of ram with a 390 video card, so I want to get as much life out of the components as I can. Having a bluetooth that I couldn't use was frustrating, so I seriously considered cutting the lead and soldering to a USB connector and installing an aftermarket bluetooth. There looks to be a separate USB for wireless underneath on the board, so I might take advantage of that if I can find a similar plug on another device to use to plug into it sometime in the future.
Regards
David.


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January 23rd, 2017 10:00
Thanks for the post.
I tried similar driver gymnastics when I moved my Aurora-R1 to Windows-10, but could never get it's Dell-365 Bluetooth v2.0 Module working.
Best I can tell, it's not the drivers but the wiring. It's connected to the MIO-Board's Internal USB-Hub instead of a USB-Port on the motherboard. My theory is that it's this strange proprietary Hub that lacks proper driver support in Win-10. If you wanted to re-wire something, I would make a patch-cable that connects the Dell-365_BT-Module directly to plain USB-2 Header on motherboard for example.
Mine is currently disconnected inside, and I use an small external Kinivo Bluetooth BTD-300 USB dongle instead. Not only does it simply use Win-10 bundled Bluetooth drivers, it's a newer Bluetooth version v3.0 with better range, BT-profiles, and general BT-Device compatibility.