Lofland bLOG

First, the card would not work for me when I started using it in my new laptop at work.

The program would start, and when I inserted the card it would say “Starting bluetooth…” but that was it. It never worked.

Here is what I did to make it work:

1. In Device Manager, under Network Adapters enable Cisco Systems VPN Adapter.

2. In Device Manager DISABLE the built in Modem.

3. In Device Manager DISABLE the external COMM port.

Now, I know, you say, “What does this have to do with bluetooth, and most people don’t have Cisco VPN on their computer!?” Yes, I know, but doing these three things has made it work consistently. I have tried any “one” of them, and it only works if I do ALL THREE.
Second, DRIVERS! SocketCOM seems to be very stingy about giving out the drivers for XP. They do send them via tech support. Here are the links they gave me:

First, THIS is the one I use, it works for me on XP:

http://www.socketcom.com/ftp/Bluetooth%20BlueSoleil%201.6.4.1%20Win%20XP%20only.zip

Now here are two other links I got from them. One is for an old version. Tech support told me I had to install the old version first, and then the new one, but that is not true. I used the above one by itself on a new computer just fine. You should not need the links below, but I put them here for documentation:
http://www.socketcom.com/ftp/BlueSoleil%201.4.9.5%20release%20050127.zip  http://www.socketcom.com/ftp/BlueSoleil_1.6.1.4.zip