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    W3V and MS bluetooth stack?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Aendruh, Aug 2, 2005.

  1. Aendruh

    Aendruh Notebook Enthusiast

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    After reinstalling XP after getting my W3V (I wanted to partition it differently from what I got preinstalled) I did not have bluetooth installed anymore. At least if you press the bt button, the sound of XP tells you that it is not there. So I was reading a little and found out that people don't seem to like the Toshiba stack and that the MS stack was enough to work with. But I cannot get it work.

    I downloaded the Toshiba stack from the Asus page, and just wanted to use the driver, hoping to use MS afterwards. However, the driver does not install (It recognizes some USB bt anyway), because of a service problem in the inf file. Without using any of the Toshiba drivers, XP cannot find any drivers that would work.

    So I tried to install the Toshiba stack, planning to kick it afterwards and hoping that it might keep the drivers despite the uninstall - but no, it doesn't. Any suggestions what to do?

    On notebookforums they say that Toshiba leaves 5 processes running (totalling 18MB in memory), MS would only have one (mem unknown). Some people suggest Widcomm there (not completely legal it seems), which runs 3 processes (mem again unknown)...

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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    Aendruh, Aug 2, 2005
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    makken Notebook Consultant

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    I'm running the widcomm stack after getting fed up with the toshiba one. Great stack imo, supports more profiles than the MS one (which i would've used if it supported the headset profile). I can tell you the mem usage from it later tonight after i get off work if you tell me the name of the three processes (BTTray, BTstack, and what's the third one?)
     
    makken, Aug 3, 2005
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