Bluetooth and XP SP2
So what is the friggin' deal with Bluetooth and SP2? I have spent the better part of the past 2 days trying to get a bluetooth mouse to stay working for more than an hour. Once it stops working, it's JACKED indefinitely, and there I am in driver hell again.
I don't understand why it has to be so complicated.
At the moment it is working, but if it stops working I'm not sure what to try. The Windows drivers? Install from the mouse vendor's (Iogear) CD? Follow their instructions, or not, and then afterwards, update the drivers that got replaced by Microsoft's drivers with the vendor's drivers in the device manager?
I'm still not sure where the problem lies, to be honest. I have had problems with a Bluetooth keyboard as well as a different RF wireless mouse. But, with the other mouse, turning it off and on would usually fix the problem. So, I thought maybe it was the bluetooth adapter (a D-Link DBT-120 rev B3) and today I picked up an Iogear GBU211. I thought maybe it play nicer with its sibling mouse.
I really like the little mouse, but unfortunately it doesn't have a PocketPC/Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition driver. There is a "hacked" ThinkOutside Stowaway driver that supposedly will work for any bluetooth mouse, and with that driver I did manage to see the mouse from my Axim, but got a message saying there were no services on the device that I could use. So it didn't exactly work.
I'm tempted to buy ThinkOutside's Stowaway mouse for the simple reason that I have a Dell Executive Bluetooth Keyboard which is actually made by ThinkOutside. I bought it from Dell, but when the plastic stand broke, I emailed ThinkOutside and they sent me 2 new plastic stands for free, without filling out any forms or anything annoying like that. They didn't care I bought it from Dell. They didn't try to pass me off to Dell. They just solved the problem.
And it's a great keyboard, and the driver for the mouse is actually installed at the same time as the keyboard, and I know how well the keyboard driver works. So, I'm seriously considering buying the ThinkOutside mouse. I don't especially want to spend 40-80 more dollars on bluetooth pointing devices, depending on where you shop, but it might happen.
It's just sad that I have had so much trouble with Bluetooth on the laptop, on what is supposedly a mature platform.
So, anyway, I better go do something with my mouse while it's still working. Gotta go!
I don't understand why it has to be so complicated.
At the moment it is working, but if it stops working I'm not sure what to try. The Windows drivers? Install from the mouse vendor's (Iogear) CD? Follow their instructions, or not, and then afterwards, update the drivers that got replaced by Microsoft's drivers with the vendor's drivers in the device manager?
I'm still not sure where the problem lies, to be honest. I have had problems with a Bluetooth keyboard as well as a different RF wireless mouse. But, with the other mouse, turning it off and on would usually fix the problem. So, I thought maybe it was the bluetooth adapter (a D-Link DBT-120 rev B3) and today I picked up an Iogear GBU211. I thought maybe it play nicer with its sibling mouse.
I really like the little mouse, but unfortunately it doesn't have a PocketPC/Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition driver. There is a "hacked" ThinkOutside Stowaway driver that supposedly will work for any bluetooth mouse, and with that driver I did manage to see the mouse from my Axim, but got a message saying there were no services on the device that I could use. So it didn't exactly work.
I'm tempted to buy ThinkOutside's Stowaway mouse for the simple reason that I have a Dell Executive Bluetooth Keyboard which is actually made by ThinkOutside. I bought it from Dell, but when the plastic stand broke, I emailed ThinkOutside and they sent me 2 new plastic stands for free, without filling out any forms or anything annoying like that. They didn't care I bought it from Dell. They didn't try to pass me off to Dell. They just solved the problem.
And it's a great keyboard, and the driver for the mouse is actually installed at the same time as the keyboard, and I know how well the keyboard driver works. So, I'm seriously considering buying the ThinkOutside mouse. I don't especially want to spend 40-80 more dollars on bluetooth pointing devices, depending on where you shop, but it might happen.
It's just sad that I have had so much trouble with Bluetooth on the laptop, on what is supposedly a mature platform.
So, anyway, I better go do something with my mouse while it's still working. Gotta go!
posted by Jiffener at
8:19 PM
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