[Jason Dunn]

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.a...p?contentid=449

Geekzone.com has put together some very impressive guidelines for getting a variety of Bluetooth scenarios working. In fact, I'm so jazzed about these great guides, I'm going to give Bluetooth another try. I have an Iogear Bluetooth USB adaptor that I'm going to try and get to work with my desktop PC and iPAQ 2215. I didn't have much success with it last time, but I'm willing to give it another go. Wish me luck! If you'd like to get your Bluetooth devices working, stop by these excellent step by step guides at Geekzone.com.

[Jason Dunn]

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.a...p?contentid=449

Geekzone.com has put together some very impressive guidelines for getting a variety of Bluetooth scenarios working. In fact, I'm so jazzed about these great guides, I'm going to give Bluetooth another try. I have an Iogear Bluetooth USB adaptor that I'm going to try and get to work with my desktop PC and iPAQ 2215. I didn't have much success with it last time, but I'm willing to give it another go. Wish me luck! If you'd like to get your Bluetooth devices working, stop by these excellent step by step guides at Geekzone.com.

[JonnoB]

I have the exact same setup (IOGear USB BT adaptor and 221x)...

Although I could get them to work, what a pain to get wirless activesync working! I still prefer to stick in my symbol WiFi card and sync via RAS. It is less painless, more plug and play and the increased power drain is replaced by a shorter sync time.

OT: Does anyone know of a way to keep an Activesync connection alive when switching between users on WinXP?

[PPCRules]

Should it really take all this to make bluetooth work?

There, I said it; everyone was thinking that anyway.

[rpommier]

Originally Posted by PPCRules

Should it really take all this to make bluetooth work?

There, I said it; everyone was thinking that anyway.

My thoughts exactly! Freitas and his site were a tremendous help, but bluetooth has very long way to go before mere mortals can deal with it.

I have the belkin F8T001 and it was a chore to get Network Access going with my router. In Bluetooth's defense, it's now my primary wireless solution in my home. Its very convenient with my 2210.

Rod

[DubWireless]

Originally Posted by PPCRules

Should it really take all this to make bluetooth work?

There, I said it; everyone was thinking that anyway.

unfortunately on Windows it can, and factor in the various Bluetooth stacks/clients provided by fifferent vendors with their equipment as it's not part of the operating system and that compounds the problem

although once set-up it usually works a charm and you can forget about it - some vendors are building on 'helpers', for example TDK to provide wizards to help get symbian smartphones working easily, others profide a step-by-step guide in PDF format (although usually hidden in the install folder!)

the MAC has a nice Bluetooth implementation in OS X (10.2+), but it needs to build in support for some more profiles...

[Jason Dunn]

Originally Posted by PPCRules

Should it really take all this to make bluetooth work?

No, but until Microsoft builds it into the OS, this ugly patch-work is the best we can do. <sigh> Sad, isn't it?

[Jason Dunn]

Ok, first snag. Getting the network connection going so I can surf the Web on my 2215 wasn't too painful. Mildly so, but it now works. The problem I have is that I can't seem to get the ActiveSync connection working. On the iPAQ, it seems that COM5 and COM8 are use for ActiveSync. On my desktop PC, I've tried setting ActiveSync to listen on COM5 and COM8 - no dice. I also looked at the settings for the serial ports on my Iogear dongle, and COM8 didn't work, and I can't select COM5 - it seems to be reserved somehow.

Any ideas? I have to admit I was pretty amazed at the speed and distance I could go with the Bluetooth Web surfing... 8O

[Jason Dunn]

Hmm. Ok, I managed to click around a little while longer and I can now ActiveSync via Bluetooth. Woo hoo! :mrgreen: Still, it should be much easier than this. 8O

[nic]

From my experiences this is the most painless way to get most bluetooth things working through PPC2003:
after you "couple" your 2 bluetooth devices do explore a bluetooth device from your pocket pc and go through that to find the bluetooth services running on your desktop. Not the other way around.

With my D-Link dongle, it was the only way I could create a network access connection. I tried through the desktop interface, and through the PPC network access wizard and those didn't work for me.

[bspline]

Glad you got it.
I actually had more problems with the network connection than with the activesync, but ultimately can surf through both now
Despite everybody complaining about ease (or lack of thereof), I'm not familiar with actual wi-fi setups, but I gather configuring your own, in-house wi-fi network can't be much easier (or comolex) than bluetooth.