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September 10th, 2005 09:00
Bluetooth Stack on Inspiron 6000
I'm trying to set up a bluetooth headset for my bluetooth-enabled Inspiron 6000. According to Microsoft, support for audio headset profiles was removed in XP Service Pack 2, and the only way to get my headset to work would be to contact the maker of the bluetooth card (Dell) and ask for an updated driver. I tried to install the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack 3.03.02, version A00, but the install halts at around 63% and I can never really get the driver to install. I then tried to install the driver off the Resource CD, but that driver was issued before 2002, and was not very stable on my system. Anyone else encountering this problem? Does anyone know of another bluetooth stack that I can install to add the headset profiles to my computer? When will Dell release a new version that will actually install? Thanks!
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September 10th, 2005 11:00
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September 11th, 2005 08:00
Yes, I did turn off all my security utilities (and disconnected from the Internet of course) when I was troubleshooting the problem.
During the install, a message appeared warning me that the driver was unsigned by Microsoft and could cause system instablility. However, the message always disappeared too quickly (maybe 1 second) for me to click "Continue Anyways." The only way I could read the message was for me to take a screenshot at the precise moment when the message appeared! To troubleshoot this warning, I entered the System Properties dialog, clicked on the Hardware Tab, and then clicked on Driver Signing. I chose to Ignore unsigned drivers, the option which supposedly meant that in the future, unsigned drivers would be installed without warning prompts. Although I never like to install unsigned drivers, I tried the installation again. No warning came up, but the install still halted at 63% and did not continue. Any more suggestions? Thanks
Message Edited by Net_Man on 09-20-2005 03:44 PM
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October 25th, 2005 16:00
I wanted to do the same thing with my Inspiron 6000 and a Motorola HS-850. I sort of tried to get the widcomm drivers, but gave up after I couldn't find any where to download them. I searched through the Dell forums and came up with this to get the latest stack to install on my system:
(Options 1 and 10 may be optional, but I did them so you may need to)
1. Go to C:\Windows\Inf (hidden folder) and rename bth.inf to bth.disabled
2. Extract the bluetooth driver/stack (usually to C:\Dell\Drivers\R92909)
3. Go into the driver directory, and find data.cab and extract it (WinRar will extract it) somewhere
4. Go to where it was extracted, and find F3603_tosrfusb.inf, open it in notepad or wordpad.
5. On the 12th line you should see "Class=USB", change it to "Class=Bluetooth" (without quotes) and save it.
6. Go to the Device Manager (Start > Run > devmgmt.msc)
7. Under "Bluetooth Radios", Right click on the "Dell Wireless 350..." and click on Update driver
8. Update the driver manually with the INF file you extracted and changed from data.cab
9. Restart if necessary, then run the install for the bluetooth driver/stack from Dell. It should get past whatever percentage it was hanging on before, but it may take a minute or two.
10. Optionally, after restarting and the new stack is working, rename c:\windows\inf\bth.disabled back to bth.inf
After all that my HS850 is working great. SP2 seems to wants to bully its stack into the foreground, and renaming bth.inf to something else prevents it from doing that. I'm not quite sure why the device class is causing a problem, but I'm thinking it may have something to do with SP2 recognizing BT devices as BT devices instead of USB devices and not allowing them to be the same thing. I'm surprised Dell hasn't offered a fix....all they need to do is change Class=USB to Class=Bluetooth in their setup and distribute it like that....oh well.
Message Edited by astateofblank on 10-25-2005 12:18 PM