Blue tooth dongle

[happy snapper]

I use a Siliconwave blue tooth USB dongle works fine (most of the time). When I reboot my pc it never detects it I have to unplug and reconnect then its fine?? Any clues?

[J1mmyD]

It's only powering up after the PC has checked for new hardware? That'd stop it autodetectng.

[happy snapper]

It powers up ok just doesnt work! Once I unplug it and plug it back in again it works ok. I dont get the found new hardware message from windows.

[mattley]

Assuming you're running XP.

Shit drivers, cheap hardware. (crap OS support might also have something to do with it)

For reasons better known to MS, XP doesn't have native Bluetooth support, so It's up to manufactures to add it, and given the number of services Bluetooth can potentially add this is no small task.


TDK are pretty much ther only people who have managed this succsesfully, mainly by doing it all themseves. Almost everyone else uses the WIDCOMM interface, which is sort of OK on paper but flaky in the real world.

Have allok in the event viewer, it might give a clue as to why the service isn;t starting.

[happy snapper]

Yesterday it was OK I could switch off and back on the dongle would start OK Today it dosnt!!! Got to be drivers or something or the order it gets loaded in startup??