See what the serial comport of the bluetooth device is installed under which com, then put Active sync on that comport, if its 10 I think you can add ports from device manager but I don't know how. Also see if the manufacture of the adapter has updated drivers from their site.
Sarai D. Bucciarelli -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sarah Van Oosterwijck Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 2:41 PM To: Braillenote List Subject: [Braillenote] bluetooth and activesync problem This is both a question and a warning about using a USB bluetooth device. I purchased a BlueSoleil bluetooth dongle, mostly because it was extremely cheep online with a rebate a couple months ago. It works just fine with my Nokia 6620 cell phone for sending files and syncing contacts. It doesn't work with my braillenote, though. When I had the Microsoft generic bluetooth driver installed I got the message (unsupported) when I searched for my computer with my braillenote. I reinstalled the device with the drivers that came on a CD with it, with a little help to get past an inaccessible splashscreen. Now my braillenote believes it is connected to my computer and that everything is fine, but it doesn't work. I know why it doesn't work, too. Stupid activesync doesn't let you use any virtual COM ports over 9. Unfortunately the COM ports assigned to communicate with my braillenote include port 10. I'd just like to scream in frustration about that. The most annoying thing is that my computer lies about COM 7, which it claims is in use, but COM 7 isn't assigned to anything. I feel like if I could just get rid of COM 7 I might be able to bring all the port assignments down one number and thereby get COM 9 to be the one my braillenote is using. Does anyone have any suggestions at all about what I might try? It seems this is actually a problem that most people who try to use bluetooth with activesync have, so Microsoft should address the problem immediately, but then again Microsoft doesn't really seem to be in to fixing problems. I have reinstalled the BlueSoleil drivers once already. I did that because there was a phantom port 6 that was possible to eliminate, and that did change some port assignments, but not the ones that needed to be changed. I don't know if it is worth the bother to keep reinstalling it in the hope that something will change. If only either the bluetooth device or activesync would let the user assign functions to absolutely any port they wanted to use this artificially created problem would not exist. Humanware should also mention this issue in the manual so frustrated people who can't get help and don't have very much Internet research abilities will know why the procedure might not work for them, and know that it isn't a problem caused by something they are doing or not doing. Sarah Van Oosterwijck Assistive Technology Trainer http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
