How can I activate bluetooth ?

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gsuser · #1 Post by **gsuser** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 7:54 am

Hello,
After a fresh install of XP on my X41, I can't open the "Fn F5" dialog box for the bluetooth and wifi settings. All the others function keys are working well.
Does anyone know what I can do to find this function back, or how to activate bluetooth without that dialog box ?
Thanks...

ex24 · #2 Post by **ex24** » Sun Jul 30, 2006 7:32 pm

Are the Drivers correctly installed?

leesiulung · #3 Post by **leesiulung** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 12:29 am

I think Access Connections is what pops up that screen. There is also a on-screen display for your thinkpad. I believe it is in the systems utilities... Might be different for different thinkpads. I'm talking from experience on my X31...

Also the drivers is a little tricky... You first have to install drivers normally from executable and allow unsigned drivers. Then you have to turn bluetooth on, which tries to install the drivers again. This time allow it autodetect the driver and sit tight until it finishes. There might be a slight pause between after the drivers are installed and the final setup to complete... I usually wait a few minutes.

christopher_wolf · #4 Post by **christopher_wolf** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 12:40 am

leesiulung wrote: Also the drivers is a little tricky... You first have to install drivers normally from executable and allow unsigned drivers. Then you have to turn bluetooth on, which tries to install the drivers again. This time allow it autodetect the driver and sit tight until it finishes. There might be a slight pause between after the drivers are installed and the final setup to complete... I usually wait a few minutes.

That's a correct approach to use.

Windows will try to detect and install the default Microsoft drivers/stacks for Bluetooth on its own if it suddenly detects it out of midair. Fortuanately, the package from IBM/Lenovo sets itself as what is to be installed when Windows goes back and redetects the Bluetooth hardware and then proceeds to install the drivers. This has caused some, err, issues on even T Series Thinkpads. Where the user would get either the MS BT Stack (which sucks as it doesn't have the Virtual COM ports made and mapped to the various BT services that are supported on most devices that use Bluetooth) or a combination of both the IBM WIDCOMM Bluetooth stack and the MS Stack which would cause conflicts.

BinaryTB · #5 Post by **BinaryTB** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 2:02 pm

I'm pretty sure you don't need to install Access Connections (I never installed it after my clean install of XP and my fn+f5 shows up the bluetooth screen). Just make sure to have the bluetooth drivers installed the hotkey program as well (I think that's the program that makes your fn keys work).

Also, a tip, uninstall the microsoft stack in your bluetooth settings (either device manager or in the control panel under bluetooth, don't remember exactly), then go to C:\Windows\Inf ("Windows" may be something else depending on where you installed Windows) and rename bth.inf to bth.inf.bak. This way the Microsoft stack won't get installed again and you can continue to use the much much better bluetooth stack installed with your bluetooth drivers.

aceyx · #6 Post by **aceyx** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 6:51 am

How is the Toshiba stack superior to the Microsoft stack? Just curious, because the latter works much easier for me.

gsuser · #7 Post by **gsuser** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 12:36 pm

Thanks for your answers, it worked after reinstalling the "Microsoft Bluetooth Support file for Integrated Bluetooth IV for Windows XP".
before the "Integrated Bluetooth II software"

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