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Steve Gattuso
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March 13th, 2006 17:00
Bluetooth Serial Port Settings - Latitude X1
I am a technician for a company that makes a portable device that connects to a serial port to transmit data into the client's computer. Our machine is set up to act as the client, while the customer computer becomes the server. All the computer needs to do is provide an unsecured Bluetooth serial port for our device to poll and connect to. In most cases, we provide the necessary adaptor for their computer, but sometimes the client already has a built-in device that they would like to use.
At this time, we have a client who is using a Latitude X1 with built-in Bluetooth. We are trying to get the machines to communicate, but we are not having much success. Our machine will see the client's system and connect, but the serial port is not passing the information into the client's software.
Questions:
1. Who makes the BT adaptor board Dell uses?
2. What driver software does the internal adaptor use?
3. How does one set the serial port up and how does one set its permissions and security?
4. Once set up, will this port show normally in Device Manager under the Ports area, or will it show up elsewhere?
At this time, we have a client who is using a Latitude X1 with built-in Bluetooth. We are trying to get the machines to communicate, but we are not having much success. Our machine will see the client's system and connect, but the serial port is not passing the information into the client's software.
Questions:
1. Who makes the BT adaptor board Dell uses?
2. What driver software does the internal adaptor use?
3. How does one set the serial port up and how does one set its permissions and security?
4. Once set up, will this port show normally in Device Manager under the Ports area, or will it show up elsewhere?
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Posted March 14th, 2006 17:00
That looks like what we're trying to do for our customer. We have to work over the phone, so how do you bring up the screen you've posted? And are the serial port connection settings in the same area?294
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Posted March 14th, 2006 22:00
Sorry, I thought you would be getting the notebook physically. To get to the above screen: Right click the Bluetooth system tray icon, select Options, click Security tab, followed by Custom Level button
To which serial port connection setting are you referring? Which setting do you have in mind?
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Posted March 16th, 2006 14:00
We need to make the serial port on the Dell as transparent as possible. No security settings or authentication required for our device to poll the computer, make a connection, and send the data out to the machine.
Other than that, we just need to make sure the serial port is enabled on the Dell, and that it's as low a COM number as possible. We can check on Device Manager for the port number and make sure that the customer's software is looking at the right port location, which is supposed to then take the data we send and interpret it to the customer's requirements.294
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Posted March 16th, 2006 23:00
In that case I would suggest you guide the customer through Custom Mode when creating a new connection to the device - the default tends to go for a high port number. By default, the Toshiba stack installs many COM ports upon installation - if I remember correctly, it created 8 COM ports! Here's what my current COM ports listing looks like:294
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Posted March 17th, 2006 15:00
Just a quick word of thanks. With your help we were able to get the connection working properly.294
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Posted March 17th, 2006 21:00
You are most welcome :smileywink:294
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Posted March 18th, 2006 14:00
I have a unique problem on my Inspiron 6000. It wont allow me to add a COM 4..8. I am connecting my PDA to the Mocha PPP server on my notebook which acts as a server to my Palm Tungsten E2
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Posted March 13th, 2006 22:00