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    Do I have bluetooth on my Sony S150?

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by oscarsonthepond, Sep 19, 2004.

  1. oscarsonthepond

    oscarsonthepond Newbie

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    Hi there -

    I recently purchased the Sony S150 (which I absolutely love, btw). I see that the S170 (the configurable version) has an option for built-in bluetooth, but I didn't see anything anywhere about the S150 having it, so I assumed it didn't. However, when I received my laptop I looked in the device manager and it listed the following items:

    Bluetooth VCOMM Port
    -Bluetooth Virtual Com4
    -OPEN INTERFACE VCOMM Control Driver for WinSock

    There is a third item as follows

    Bluetooth Radios
    -USB Bluetooth Device

    However I'm not sure if this third driver came with the laptop, or if I installed it afterwards (I know I installed it, but I don't know if it was already there or not). At sony's website it says it's the original driver that shipped with my computer, so I assume it was already there. However, this driver had a yellow exclamation point on it, and when I clicked on properties it said "This device cannot start. (Code 10)" So I uninstalled it a couple times, and reinstalled it to no avail. Then I installed SP2, hoping it would help, but now when I try to re-install that driver it says it requires SP1...UGH!


    Anyways...After seeing all this stuff for bluetooth on my computer, and after being able to 'search' for bluetooth devices, I figured that my laptop did infact have bluetooth built in, so I went out and bought a PocketMouse Bluetooth from Kensington. Needless to say (or I wouldn't be here), it didn't work.

    So anyways...my question is does my Sony S150 have built in bluetooth? If not then Sony really sucks for including a bunch of 'bluetooth' drivers and making me go out and spend fifty bucks on a mouse I can't use :(

    Thanks in advance for the responses.