Vista Bluetooth and T40

[IainCD]

Hi

Does andyone know if I can get a lenovo/widcom bluetooth s/w package for a T40

TIA

Iain.

[schimmi]

Under Vista, Bluetooth works out-of-the-box for the "IBM Integrated Bluetooth I/II/III" Devices. Basic Features like OBEX Transfers, Virtual COM-Ports and PAN are supported.

[sugo]

You can try changing the USB IDs. For Windows XP, the newer v5.x Widcomm doesn't work for T42 bluetooth.

[zverg]

Under Vista, Bluetooth works out-of-the-box for the "IBM Integrated Bluetooth I/II/III" Devices. Basic Features like OBEX Transfers, Virtual COM-Ports and PAN are supported.

ha! hardly

Microsoft's bluetooth support is VERY crippled, even in 2007 when it is a commonplace feature. Not that I use Windows on my ThinkPad regularly, I did for a time have Vista on it and the bluetooth is what made me kill Vista.

[GomJabbar]

I would have to agree with zverg. I only had basic bluetooth services with Vista RC1 on my T42. The Lenovo Widcom XP drivers have much more functionality. I could not get the XP drivers to work in Vista. Since RC1 expired at the end of May, I currently do not have a Vista installation.

[schimmi]

Under Vista, Bluetooth works out-of-the-box for the "IBM Integrated Bluetooth I/II/III" Devices. Basic Features like OBEX Transfers, Virtual COM-Ports and PAN are supported.

ha! hardly

Microsoft's bluetooth support is VERY crippled, even in 2007 when it is a commonplace feature. Not that I use Windows on my ThinkPad regularly, I did for a time have Vista on it and the bluetooth is what made me kill Vista.

Yes, they provide only basic features compared to the Widcom drivers in Winxp. The bloated widcom drivers were also far from being a perfect solution.
For people who need features only provided by the Widcom driver, it is surely bad that there is no one for Vista. In this case I understand your unhappiness with the Vista-drivers.
But most people (like me) are happy with basic but clear functionality.

On the other hand, on my first steps using Vista, I installed the v6 Widcom package provided by Lenovo for newer machines using the EDR BT-modules, simply because there were no vista driver for my system. It was a 60MB driver package and somehow larger than all system drivers together. By following some simple steps written in a german forum (in devicemanager, change the detected bt device to a broadcom one, then install the lenovo package), this driver did it for my integrated bluetooth ii device (maybe they locked this "feature" in recent drivers, I never tried this again.). however - size, look&feel and features i'd never need took me back to the orig. ms drivers.