topic Re: Interner Bluetooth Adapter in PCs & Accessories

Interner Bluetooth Adapter

Maxone — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 09:53:33 GMT

Hallo,

ich habe ein VGN-A397XP mit eingebauten Bluetooth-Adapter. Sobald ich ihn einschalte übernimmt das Programm von WinXP die Steuerung und da es dort keine Stacks gibt, kann man den Adapter nicht verwenden.

Gibt es eine Möglichkeit den Adapter mit der Bluespace NE Software zu verwenden und gibt es einen Bluetooth-Treiber von Sony?

Vielen Dank

Re: Interner Bluetooth Adapter

rich912 — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 12:05:44 GMT

Hi Maxone. In the hope that your English is better than my German¿..

If I have understood you correctly it sounds as though you need to turn on the Bluetooth functionality.
First turn on the physical wireless switch and the `switch wireless devices¿ dialog box should appear. If not, right click the wireless icon in the task bar and select `show main dialog¿. You should now be able to select Bluetooth, Wireless Lan or both.

HTH

Re: Interner Bluetooth Adapter

Maxone — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 17:39:08 GMT

Hi Rich912,

thanks for your answer but my problem ist not to turn the Bluetooth on rather to use it with my headphone. When I turn it on the WinXP-Software takes control of the Bluetooth devices, so I can not connect to my headphone. I think I need another Bluetooth driver and software where the Bluetooth stakes are included like the software by Widcomm.
Does anyone know how to connect to a headphone with the inbuild Bluetooth devices from the A-series?

Thanks

Re: Interner Bluetooth Adapter

rich912 — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 20:29:54 GMT

Sorry Maxone, it just confirms that my understanding of German is cr*p!

I have read somewhere, recently, that headsets are not supported by built-in BT on the Vaio but I cannot find the article.:smileysad:
I have a Targus BT dongle and the software certainly purports to support headsets and runs under Widcomm 3.0.1.901 but I have not tried it.

I appreciate that the above is of no help to you, but good luck with finding a solution.

Re: Interner Bluetooth Adapter

Maxone — Sun, 12 Jun 2005 13:28:56 GMT

Mhm ....that is bad but i wonder for what can I use my built-in BT?

Re: Interner Bluetooth Adapter

Avenger — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 21:23:19 GMT

hi, du kannst den neusten widcomm treiber 4.0.1.700 dafür verwenden
funzt einwandfrei

Re: Interner Bluetooth Adapter

Fuzzillogic — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 23:51:46 GMT

Does it still involve hacking the drivers to get them to work, like the previous Widcomm-drivers? Or actually: use them illegally?

MS BT-stack indeed is very limited compared to the Widcomm drivers, but for what they do, they work OK. The stack supports plug-ins, other profiles could be added. Aren't there any (third party) plug-ins already?

But indeed, Sony should be more pro-active to this matter. After all, they do have BT headsets but those can't be used with their expensive high-end laptop line-up. Duh.

Re: Interner Bluetooth Adapter

Avenger — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 15:15:06 GMT

Hi, here come's the answer of your Question
Follow the link pleaseWidcomm Bluetooth Driver
Please use the Alps Entire (heißt das Eintrag ?)
and modify it with your PID. Do not modify the Original BTWUSB.inf only the inf-File from the extra Paket.
Sorry, but my English is not god enough, so i'm from Germany.

CU
Avenger

Re: Interner Bluetooth Adapter

Fuzzillogic — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 18:57:28 GMT

Ok that's the illegal and inconvenient solution. Do you also have a legal one?

Re: Interner Bluetooth Adapter

ZeroBk — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 13:11:38 GMT

I've been following some threads about the bluetooth headset prifile under WinXP SP2 at the Skype forum (www.skype.com), and as I understand it there's no easy way to enable this profile, not with externas USB-dongles and not with built-in VAIO BT.

The root of the problem is that Microsoft's driver doesn't support this profile. The solution is either to wait for Microsoft to fix it, or install the Widcomm driver.

The install is not easy. Take a look in the Skype forums under Hardware. Here you can find lots of help. There are also some specific threads for Sony VAIO and BT.

Viel Erfolg!