Repiring crippled Integrated Bluetooth environment

[guravage]

I recently purchased a Qware Bluetooth Mini Mouse that I intended to use it via the integrated Bluetooth support on my new IBM T43p laptop. However, I could not convince the IBM Bluetooth software and the mouse to talk. I wanted to avoid installing software from the CD that came with the mouse, but finally relented thinking that perhaps the WIDCOMM CD contained a particular driver that would make the mouse visible to IBM Bluetooth software. I started the setup program and clicked the install button. To my horror a message flashed by saying, "Deleting Bluetooth ..." I could not read the rest; it went by so quickly. Immediately the original Bluetooth Neighborhood folder on the Desktop and the Bluetooth icon in the application tray vanished. To add insult to injury, the WIDCOMM setup program then died with some obscure error message. The result being that the WIDCOMM setup program crippled my IBM Bluetooth environment.

As the first step to putting things back the way they were, can anyone help me identify what the WINCOMM software deleted? For example, I found a BTTray application that, when run, complained of a missing BTBalloon.ddl. After replacing the ddl the BTTray application ran and the Bluetooth icon appeared in the tray. Restoring things might be as easy as running through a few directories and reinstalling a few applications.

Any help or suggestions will greatly be appreciated. You can me via the forum or directly at guravage@solcon.nl, thanks in advance for your help.

With kind regards,

Michael Guravage

[bill bolton]

Have you downloaded the current Bluetooth driver from the IBM/Levono support web site and tried to install it? The IBM driver is WIDCOM based.

The IBM Bluetooth drivers support Microsoft and Logitech BT mice without any problems.

Cheers,

Bill

[guravage]

The Lenovo Software and Device Drivers - ThinkPad T43, T43p site enumerates two files associated with Bluetooth functionality:

1. 7fba05ww.exe(75,597,400) Bluetooth with Enhanced Data Rate Software

2. 1ybm02ww.exe(322,920) Microsoft Bluetooth Support file for Integrated Bluetooth IV for Windows XP

Both appear to augment or extend existing functionality, not the core software I trounced.

Please correct me if I am wrong but, isn't there a Windows/IBM software delivery mechanism similar to Linux RPMs where one can say, "this file or this set of files deliver this functionality?"

Cheers,

Michael Guravage

[bill bolton]

Both appear to augment or extend existing functionality, not the core software I trounced.

I have no idea what "core software" you think you have lost, but if you install the two files you found on the Levono site, you should have full Bluetooth functionality under Windows XP (if your hardware is functioning correctly).

Cheers,

Bill

[christopher_wolf]

The IBM BT drivers add the functionality that you don't get with the basic Microsoft BT stack (you don't get AG, no OBEX FTP, you have to make all the virtual COM ports youself, which is a pain, etc).

Have you tried uninstalling the Bluetooth stack already there? There might be two entries there, get rid of one and the other should disappear in Software Installer as well. Then, without rebooting, install the latest Bluetooth Drivers via Software Installer or manually; then reboot.

[Esben]

Has anyone tried installing the latest WIDCOMM v5.0.1250 software on a ThinkPad?
I have installed it with my Logitech DiNovo keyboard set, and it is excellent.