New ThinkPad user - bluetooth disabled by default
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 7:35 pm
This was annoying - I got my new X60 (yay!) and fiddled with several settings, then got to trying Bluetooth.
It seemed something was broken. The bluetooth light was always out. When I selected the Bluetooth icon on the system bar I got "device not available" or something similar. When I ran the Control Panel Bluetooth Settings dialog, it said "Device not detected".
To cut a long story short, I eventually worked out that I had to hit "Fn-F5" and enable the Bluetooth radio, before anything else would work.
How on earth am I meant to know that? Surely if the system comes with a bluetooth icon on the system bar, at minimum it should say "press Fn-F5 to enable bluetooth"? Or maybe in the Control Panel, or the ThinkVantage "ThinkPad Configuration" program, or *somewhere* other than behind a mysterious key combination?
Anyway, apart from whinging, I'm posting here to say - are there any other tricks and traps for someone completely new to Thinkpads? (I'm assuming a seasoned Thinkpad user would have hit Fn-F5 before trying anything else...)
Which actual parts of the ThinkVantage tools should I look at, and which are junk? There seems to be a lot to learn. I guess I should go through the "Access Help" - sigh - I'd much prefer a real printed manual.
- Korny
It seemed something was broken. The bluetooth light was always out. When I selected the Bluetooth icon on the system bar I got "device not available" or something similar. When I ran the Control Panel Bluetooth Settings dialog, it said "Device not detected".
To cut a long story short, I eventually worked out that I had to hit "Fn-F5" and enable the Bluetooth radio, before anything else would work.
How on earth am I meant to know that? Surely if the system comes with a bluetooth icon on the system bar, at minimum it should say "press Fn-F5 to enable bluetooth"? Or maybe in the Control Panel, or the ThinkVantage "ThinkPad Configuration" program, or *somewhere* other than behind a mysterious key combination?
Anyway, apart from whinging, I'm posting here to say - are there any other tricks and traps for someone completely new to Thinkpads? (I'm assuming a seasoned Thinkpad user would have hit Fn-F5 before trying anything else...)
Which actual parts of the ThinkVantage tools should I look at, and which are junk? There seems to be a lot to learn. I guess I should go through the "Access Help" - sigh - I'd much prefer a real printed manual.
- Korny