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    Dell Wireless 355 Bluetooth Module with Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by mrg666, Feb 14, 2008.

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    mrg666 Notebook Evangelist

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    I recently bought a Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000 for my Vostro 1500 running Windows XP. Vostro 1500 has Dell Wireless 355 Bluetooth module with WIDCOMM drivers and stack installed. When I tried to connect the mouse it was detected and the WIDCOMM Bluetooth driver/software asked to click a button with the detected mouse to verify. But mouse was not moving at all. I tried the mouse with my other Dell Inspiron 500M with an older Dell Truemobile Bluetooth module which was running with original Windows XP bluetooth stack and the mouse was detected/worked okay. I decided to switch to Windows XP bluetooth stack from WIDCOMM dirvers/software and saw that it was not a straightforward thing to do.

    I, first, uninstalled WIDCOMM software from control panel and uninstalled the device (Wireless 355 Bluetooth Module) from the device manager. Upon reboot, system found the WIDCOMM drivers again. Next, I deleted the driver folder, and deleted the driver file (as given in the device manager) from every directory Windows search could find. This time, Windows could not install the bluetooth interface at all. There were no alternative drivers suggested by the device manager when I wanted to install the driver manually. I came to the conclusion that Microsoft stack was not supporting the Wireless 355 module. I went to /Windows/Inf directory to find the bluetooth INF file and found the bth.bak file which was the backup of original Microsoft INF file for bluetooth stack. I have renamed it to bth.inf and viewed in Notepad. There was not a definition of device ID for Wireless 355 Blutetooth module which is USB\VID_413C&PID_8126 as I got from the device manager. I added the following line in the file bth.inf

    Dell Wireless 355 Bluetooth Module= BthUsb, USB\VID_413C&PID_8126

    in the [Dell.NT.5.1] group and saved the file with the hope that the default drivers would support Wireless 355 Bluetooth module as well.
    Finally, went to device manager and updated the driver for bluetooth interface manually. Windows again could not find the driver but this time offered the item i just added to the INF file as a non-WHQL option as expected. When I chose the new option, Bluetooth interface stack installed fine and it is working now. And, the mouse is connecting fine, finally. I hope this helps to others too. Cheers!
     
    mrg666, Feb 14, 2008
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    Just for completeness, Windows XP SP3 has the WHQL driver for Dell wireless 355 bluetooth module. No modifications needed anymore.
     
    mrg666, May 12, 2008
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