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    Widcomm Drivers with internal dell bluetooth dongle?

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by Mach1Chris, Jun 6, 2006.

  1. Mach1Chris

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    Has anyone upgraded to the Widcomm bluetooth stack on their Dell laptop? I have an Inspiron 6400 and the Toshiba stack is horrendous. I cannot even connect to my phone with mobile PhoneTools.

    Has anyone upgraded to the Widcomm stack? Does it work?

    Thanks,
    Chris
     
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    anyone?..........................
     
    Mach1Chris, Jun 7, 2006
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    I honestly don't know. I hate Toshiba's stack also, so I went with XP's stack. This is one of those issues where you'll just have to test it out and see because everyone uses BT for different devices, and it depends on if the device is compatible.

    Here is a site that I found: http://www.jonsguides.com/bluetooth/tested.html

    What kind of phone do you have? You might try our sister site, mobile device/pda review. Tab is located at the top and will take you directly to the site.
     
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    Thanks for the reply SouthernGirl... how did you go about switching to the Xp stack? It would probably be the same process (and work) for the widcomm stack...

    Thanks,
    Chris
     
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    I'm not sure if it would be the same as widcomm. I haven't messed with it much. It took a couple of hours just messing around with my laptop in order to get the MS stack to take. XP SP 2 does have a BT stack. You have to uninstall all of the toshiba junk and delete the drivers folder if you know where it is at. Reason that you have to do that is because when you reboot and the hardware is detected is will just go back to the toshiba driver.

    I can tell you that it is frustrating. It took awhile for me to get everything worked out. I wish I could give you more advice, but I went around in circles so many times that I'm not sure what I did right and what I didn't.

    I'm going to move this to our Networking Forum - you might get more help there. I'm sure we have several users that use the widcomm stack, but they might not be dell users.
     
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    Where do you get the windows stack? I didn't even know one existed...
     
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    AFAIK, It comes with SP2, but I think you uninstall and delete any previous stack. If you don't, then hardware will just detect your current stack.
     
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    Have a look here
    http://www.gsmhosting.com/vbb/forumdisplay.php?f=237

    I recently installed the IBM/Lenovo Widcomm drivers wh any modifications to the package on an Acer.
    The reason it worked could be that the Acer already had a Widcomm version from Acer installed on it.

    The newest v5.0.1.2800 (like the ones from logitech .2500) are reported to resolve problems with dropping connections with BT mice and dropping sound when BT mice are used in combination with BT headphones.

    So probably (I know when my BT mouse arrives in the mail) it is now just as stable with a BT mouse as the MS stack, thus taking away the only reason for using an MS stack which lacks decent headset and audio gateway (missing A2DP stack).

    HTH

    Drio
     
    Drio, Jun 9, 2006
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