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    SP1 solved my Bluetooth problem

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by billcsho, Mar 31, 2008.

  1. billcsho

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    I got my Vostro 1400 without the BT module originally since I have a Belkin USB dongle already. I used that dongle in Vista with third party driver for a couple months and then bought a refurbished Dell Truemobile BT 355 for $11 with free shipping around Christmas. Perhaps because of the 3rd party driver for the Belkin dongle installed, I had trouble in installing the driver for 355. It only showed as an unknown device and did not accept any driver even it detects the device properly. When I am running XP Pro on the same laptop, the 355 works great though.
    After I tried every way suggested on the web and still could not get it to work, I downloaded the Vista SP1 and updated the Vista last night. This morning, I found the BT 355 went through the driver installation successfully and now I get the BT 355 working in Vista finally. :D
     
    billcsho, Mar 31, 2008
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