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Don??™t bother trying to brute-force install a driver right here
in Device Manager. If you manage to install the proper software,
Device Manager will identify your Bluetooth adapter
and install the driver automatically. Otherwise, the best
you??™ll get with a manually loaded driver is an icon in the
Bluetooth Radios category covered by a yellow exclamation
mark and the error ???Device cannot start.??? Before you try to
install one of the Bluetooth stacks listed here, unload any
drivers already on your PC by right-clicking the entry for
your Bluetooth radio in Device Manager and clicking Delete.
Inspect the software that comes with your Bluetooth adapter (even if it
won??™t install on Vista), or check the manufacturer??™s web site to find out
what kind of chip your adapter uses. If you have a Toshiba Bluetooth
adapter, you can get the Toshiba stack at:
http://aps.toshiba-tro.de/bluetooth/pages/toshiba/general-information-pcstack.
html
Or, if you have an adapter that uses a Broadcom or Widcomm Bluetooth
chip, you can get the Broadcom stack at:
http://www.broadcom.com/products/bluetooth_update.php
or the Broadcom Vista update at:
http://update.broadcom.com/downloads/btwinitialupdate.exe
Once you get that Bluetooth Devices icon to appear in Control Panel, go
ahead and click it (or run bthprops.cpl) to open the Bluetooth Devices window
shown in Figure 7-16. There??™s a lot of stuff here, but for the most part,
only two of the tabs are useful when connecting to other devices: Devices
and COM Ports.
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