[ChristopherTD]

I borrowed a 3Com Bluetooth adaptor (USB) for my ThinkPad, thinking that it would be neat to be able to use BT for sync. WiFi works pretty well for sync, but chews up the battery, so a low power alternative would be good.

Foolish me.

After 2 hours of trying every possible permutation to get the wretched thing to work my efforts culminated in a spontaneous hard-reset of my 5450. Fortunately a recent backup meant it was merely inconvenient.

I could get the iPaq partnered to the Thinkpad, and send files back and forth, I just couldn't get ActiveSync to work. Both the PC and the PPC seemed to want to initiate the intial connection. I couldn't get one into a listening state so that it could accept an inbound connection.

Is there a magic sequence of actions that can make this work, or is it better to simply stick to WiFi and ignore BT for ActiveSync?

(BT works brilliantly to my T68i phone, especially for SMS with EasySMS, I never imagined it would be so awkward to use with a PC)