Windows 2000 bluetooth support
 

I've been looking at the Msi integrated bluetooth dongle for kt3 and kt4 motherboards as well as the microsoft usb bluetooth dongle. However, Microsofts web page does not give any indication of support for anything but XP according to white papers in the knowledge base about bluetooth support. Also, MSI's bluetooth program for their dongle appears to be a third party driver that is using a virtual com port as bluetooth support, leading me to wonder if Bluetooth support is native to Win 2K or any service packs add OS support for it.

It's looking like all bluetooth solutions for Win 2k are via virtual com port drivers. Does anyone have any info on native support for my OS?

I tried using BT under XP and gave up after trying about 5 or 6 versions of the drivers from D-Link, IOGear, and Broadcom.

BT support is not built into 2000 or XP.

The installs created all sorts of virtual COM ports and other crap that gave me flashbacks of running MS-DOS 3.3.

I tried using BT with Sony's T68i to sync my phone with Outlook. It worked twice and never again regardless of the drivers I used. I also found that many BT features appear as available options in the software but don't actually work. For example, you can't browse the contents of the T68i although the BT software provides that option. From what I've read, many BT features must be incorporated in the device itself or require additional drivers that aren't available yet.

Ironically, I have BT running very well on my Mac under OS X. No virtual COM ports or other nonsense like that. Plug and play the way it's supposed to be.

Good luck and let us know if you find a winning combination of drivers for Windows.

i have an ambicom bt adapter, works fine with XP, sync various bt devices with it.

virtual com ports are quite useful, it allows software that doesn't support bt to run, for instance most modem terminal software.

But do such adapters work under windows 2000? Every white paper from MS on bluetooth makes no mention of if that OS can even work with it.

according to ambicom it does work and they do provide drivers, i have no experience with it under 2k though.

I have that same MSI board and want to get the MS BT keyboard/mouse combo. But I too have Win2k :(