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DiGiTYZED
08-25-2004, 05:08 PM
What Bluetooth Compact Flash cards/adapters use WIDCOMM Bluetooth drivers besides Belkin, Billionton, BlueTake & BrainBoxes???
Jereboam
08-25-2004, 07:08 PM
Virtually all of them I believe.

J'bm
DiGiTYZED
08-25-2004, 09:04 PM
No that's not true. Most of them should be but, they're not. AmbiCom & Pretec among others are not using WIDCOMM drivers.
Jereboam
08-26-2004, 07:53 AM
If you knew the answer why did you bother asking the question? :roll:
DiGiTYZED
08-26-2004, 03:56 PM
because between 11:08 am and 3:04 pm I found the answer
Underwater Mike
08-26-2004, 04:07 PM
I know that Socket's doesn't, and the Socket driver pales in comparison.
DiGiTYZED
08-26-2004, 04:32 PM
yeah, i was going to mention Socket's too, but I wasn't too sure about them.

basically people you want to go with a bluetooth usb/cf/sd/etc adapter that uses the WIDCOMM Bluetooth stack/driver for maximum compatibility. I believe the HP iPaqs all use WIDCOMM too. and i think most if not all software utilizing BT is compatible with WIDCOMM drivers (just a hunch)

one way to verify this is to compare the version number (and sometimes the filesize) of the drivers to other WIDCOMM adapters. for example I used Belkin's drivers as a measuring stick and sure enough those other companies using WIDCOMM drivers was version 1.4.2.10. note this was the USB adapters, i didn't compare CF adapters. i assumed it's all the same

all of this is preliminary of course