Get your Anycom Bluetooth USB Adapter USB-2x0 working under Windows Vista
Posted by Arne Hess - at Friday, 23.02.07 - 14:50:14 CET under Digital - Gadgets - Viewed 34353x
Long time ago, I was a big fan of Anycom's Bluetooth products, basically
because Anycome was one of the first companies which offered Bluetooth PC- and
CF-cards which worked with Windows Mobile Pocket PCs (it was the time, when
Compaq's iPAQ line was the state of the art device and thanks to the jackets,
you were able to use even PCMCIA and CF-cards with Pocket PCs). Well, recently I
bought a new Bluetooth USB stick for my Windows Media Center (I've upgraded from
the Acer stick since Acer failed to provide drivers) and as it turned out, the
Anycom USB Adapter USB-200 was even Bluetooth 2.0 already (bout it early last
year).
So indeed - another great product I wasn't unhappy with but well - Anycom
likes to use their own Bluetooth stack (I think it's based on the Broadcom
stack) but I prefer the Microsoft stack, even if it offers less, it's better
working with ActiveSync and/or the Windows Mobile Device Center.
Getting rid of a "pre-defined" Bluetooth stack causes always trouble, but not
so with the Anycom USB-2x0 USB Adapter. The fine folks from Anycom
released a driver called "anycom-bluetooth-usb2x0-windowsxp-v2-1-0-4.exe" which
allows you to use the Anycom Blue USB-200/220/250 USB Adapter with the Microsoft
Bluetooth Stack on Windows XP SP2 and Windows XP x86-64 bit edition. So far so
good but I'm running Windows Vista Ultimate on my Media Center now but I decided
to give it a try anyway and voila - it works even with Windows Vista. However,
you have to know how to make it working:
- In case you have installed any other Bluetooth drivers before, unplug
the USB adapter and remove uninstall any Bluetooth drivers first.
- Download the driver to your Windows Vista PC and install it
- Do a reboot (at least it cannot hurt)
- Plugin the USB adapter and open the Windows Device Manager (Computer ->
Properties -> Device Manager)
- Here you should find the unrecognized USB Adapter:
- Right click -> Update Driver Software
- Select Brose my computer for driver software
- Select Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer:
- Select Bluetooth Radios:
- Here we go, Vista already shows you the right driver:
- Click Next and the driver is going to be successfully installed:
- Now you can Close the wizard and Vista is installing all possible
profiles for the Bluetooth adapter:
That's it. The next time you start Windows Vista, you will find the Bluetooth
icon in the Task bar:
as well as you will find it in the Control Panel (Classic View):
Not sure why Windows Vista isn't installing the right driver itself if it
knows which one to use but I think, it's because the driver isn't signed (for
Windows Vista). Therefore Vista denies to install it automatically.
Anyway, that's pretty cool and handy and it's really appreciated, if
companies like Anycom provides such tools to let the customer chose which
Bluetooth stacks to use. At least, this is far less hassle then previously
installing the Windows Vista Bluetooth driver on my Fujitsu Siemens Tablet PC.
Well done Anycom!
Cheers ~ Arne
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