Vista asks me drivers for "Bluetooth Peripheral Device"

cescotto

Did somebody here had the same problem? On XP I don't remember any driver request for bluetooth devices.

the-laughing-man

Don't know about Vista. I wwas installing a bluetooth device for my Dad the other day on XP and that brought up the infamous "continue anyway" sign so yeah, that definitely needed a driver

DICKSONTOH

cescotto wrote:
Did somebody here had the same problem? On XP I don't remember any driver request for bluetooth devices.

i got thsi as well when a BT mobile phone is near the vista pc.. i just ignore it..

Frank W
^_^

On Vista, each BT Profile without corresponding driver will be displayed as "Bluetooth Peripheral Device".

Say A2DP (Bluetooth Stereo), Vista RTM doesn't include this profile, so it will be a "Bluetooth Peripheral Device".

But after installing a 3rd party Bluetooth driver for Vista, like Broadcom's... Most of those profiles will find their drivers and work properly.

Here is a link to my Live Space blog entry showing my Bluetooth Devices Control Panel in Vista x64 with Broadcom driver. Should looks different from your BT Dialog. Wink http://wangjie.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!4EDAC3895CE81099!1204.entry

Maybe you don't read Chinese, but at least you can see the pictures. Smiley

BlackTiger
If you stumbled and fell down, it doesn't mean yet, that you're going in the wrong direction.

What is your hardware? Toshiba laptop?

Raghavendra_Mudugal
This is how it feels when you do not upgrade to the latest technology...

Ofcourse, it needs. Some months before, I had a bluetooth dongle connected for the first time and driver screen came up. Anyway that dongle had a ccd with it which contains drivers for XP. Now, I never came across a deivce of bluetooth that does'nt needs a driver. Smiley

Frank W
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Problem solved for Broadcom chips. Big Smile

I've also post the following to a German Vista related forum. Hope this works for you too.

Actually if you are using a Broadcom chip Bluetooth adapter, you can get the newest software from Lenovo Thinkpad website. Currently Broadcom's own website provides v5.x of its driver, but they do give Thinkpad a newer version 6.0.3500.

Now you must get it! [6] Yes, if you're using a Broadcom chip, no matter the manufacture (MSI, Belkin or else), you can use the driver for Thinkpad Bluetooth. Same chip, same driver!

Here is how you make it. I've done the following steps with my MSI USB Bluetooth Adapter on Vista x64. Not sure how it goes on x86. Take your own risk.

1. Make sure your Bluetooth device does use a Broadcom chip. Otherwise you can stop here. It won't work for you.

2. In Vista Hardware Management, update your BT driver to Blutonium BCM2035 Bluetooth 2.4 GHz Single Chip Transceiver (by Broadcom). This driver comes with Vista. I believe this step is optional, because your chip might not be BCM2035, but should be very close, and this works.

3. Download the Widcomm Bluetooth Driver 6.0.3500 from this page: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss...ocid=MIGR-67250

4. Now install the downloaded driver. Might need a reboot to finish.

5. You may still see some Bluetooth Peripheral Device in Device Manager. Try install drivers from the target folder you've just installed your Widcomm driver. Say %programfiles%\Bluetooth Software\bin

6. Now they should work perfectly for you! Enjoy! Cool

JEmlay

I just bought a Belkin F8T012-1 and tried using the IBM driver and the installtion would fail as it could not detect my device. Then I tried the Belkin website as a last ditch effort and I saw an updated drivers that claims Vista 32bit support.

It works great! Finally real Vista drivers from the source.

Lloyd_Humph
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Raghavendra_Mudugal wrote:
Ofcourse, it needs. Some months before, I had a bluetooth dongle connected for the first time and driver screen came up. Anyway that dongle had a ccd with it which contains drivers for XP. Now, I never came across a deivce of bluetooth that does'nt needs a driver.

I used to have one erm... a Belkin one. All you did was plugged it in and it worked. Weirdly enough, on the box it said "thumb sized usb dongle" the person that described it as thumb size must've had a nasty case of elephantisis.

Now ive got a Mikomi one (cheap and cheerful) which works fine and all but it only works on ONE pc. -.-

Frank W
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Okay, now Broadcom officially released the Vista driver (x86 / x64).

If you have an adapter that uses Broadcom chip, you can download the driver from their website: http://www.broadcom.com/products/bluetooth_update.php

Actually you'll download a stub program which will check your Bluetooth chip, OS and download the right driver for ya. Or it will tell you that your Bluetooth device is not supported by them. That could mean your chip is not a Broadcom one, or your Bluetooth device driver is not directly supported by Broadcom but by the device manufacturer.

amindia08

My vista ask me to install bluetooth peripheral device and i don't have installer.

cosmic

IF you have a problem with "Bluetooth Peripheral Device" download new bluesoelil 5.0 driver unpack folder blueso~1 install manually bluetooth by Computer => System properties=> driver manager=>"Bluetooth Peripheral Device"=>update driver=> install manually find location with folder blueso~1 open brcmusb.inf or earlier find Bleutooth drivers form the list of drivers install hid enum and some familiar driver I don't remember And thats should work I THink Smiley

CYAAAAA

lauredis

In reply to cosmic

#Sep 26th, 2007 @ 1:33 PM

Great useful info.

If you need bluetooth + EDR software download bluesoleil 6. I am testing it with a Logitech bluetooth adaptor to connect to my new s9 hd motorola bluetooth headset

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