Bluetooth does work, meaning there is nothing wrong with the BrailleNote's ability to pair and send bluetooth signal, as far as I can tell. There certainly is something wrong with everything that supposedly can use bluetooth and the procedures required, however. I haven't gotten a single thing I own to work with bluetooth and the BrailleNote. I can pair with my cell phone and pretend to use it for wireless Internet, but my phone just says something like "dialing 1" and does nothing else. I can't imagine what it is really doing. I used the exact same connection settings as for my dialup earthlink account, but of course I switched the modem to the Nokia 6620 cell phone, and turned off wait for a dial tone. If anyone has a similar phone and can give me some advise I'd really be a very happy person. I really badly want to use my cellphone and BrailleNote for Internet access in that way.
I had a port out of range problem with Activesync, so I couldn't use it with my BrailleNote. Now I think I solved that problem by installing a different driver for bluetooth on my computer, but it still doesn't work. Again I can pair just fine, but activesync just doesn't find a device to connect to. Actually it stopped working with USB when I tried to make it work with bluetooth, so that was really counter productive. I just can't express how much I hate activesync. I don't think anything makes me so mad. The third thing I tried to make work with bluetooth was the BrailleNote as a braille display. I currently have to choose between speech I can tolerate, and a braille display, because my synthesizer takes up my only com port. If I could use bluetooth for the connection for the braille display that would solve that problem. I first ran the JAWS maintenance wizard and chose modify my installation. I again checked BrailleNote in the list of displays, but I was given no opportunity to choose a com port, so of course it didn't work. It also lost my synthesizer, thanks a lot stupid JAWS! I reinstalled my synthesizer and went back to beating at the com port problem. I found a message someone had written about using the BrailleNote as a braille display in JAWS and tried to follow those directions. They really didn't make much sense, and that is why I am not going to give the name of the person who wrote them. Either some steps were missing or something was very mixed up. I went through all the braille display options I could find in JAWS. In the configuration manager there isn't anything about com ports, and in options, braille, you can change the com port, but 4 is the highest port that you can choose. I am willing to bet that there is absolutely no one who can use bluetooth on a com port less than 5. If someone has, then I want to know how they accomplished it. Either using bluetooth is just theoretical for me, or someone will have to give directions for changing com ports used by braille displays and synthesizers in JAWS manually. Yes, I'd love to use my BrailleNote as a remote synthesizer with bluetooth. I already have a cordless keyboard, but I can only use it as far from the computer as I can hear my synthesizer, which isn't very far. If my synthesizer could come with me that problem would be solved. I already tried to buy and use some cordless headphones for that purpose, but they hissed so loudly that I couldn't stand them. I guess they were only made for people blasting rock music that would cover up the signal to noise ratio quality problem. Again I don't know how to accomplish this because I don't know how to change the com port used by a synthesizer. Actually I do for all synthesizers besides the keynote, but I can't get the option for a keynote synthesizer. Am I supposed to be able to change it somehow? Where? I don't care how complicated or convoluted the procedure is as long as someone can give me real, tested, directions for solving any of my bluetooth problems. <smile> Oh, I recommend that anyone considering trying to make bluetooth work first consider their state of mind and health at that moment. Simply do not begin if you aren't in perfect condition, and under no circomstances try all these things in the same night. I was too physically exhausted to do much when I tried most of this stuff, but I thought I would be fine since it was only mentally demanding. I think by the end my husband was seriously considering throughing me outside in the cold until I could calm down and shut up. LOL 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
