e.Cyclone ASDS-273 Bluetooth USB adapter

Has anyone manage to get an e.Cyclone ASDS-273 Bluetooth USB adapter to work with MS Vista (or XP)

The adapter that I have bought came with:

BlueSoleil 1.6.1.4 Release 00606
Stack version 05.04.05.20040408

AIUI the install procedure uses BlueSoleil on XP and standard MS generic Bluetooth drivers on Vista.

I can't get either of these to work properly.

The dongle hardware itself is OK. Using my desktop PC I can pair the PC with my mobile phone when I run Ubuntu. I just can't pair the two devices when I run Vista and the supplied software. The dongle has a rather odd mac address 11:11:11:11:11:11.

IVT Corporation who make BlueSoleil have later versions of their software, with trial versions that do work, however IVT want 19.95 (Euros) for a full licence which is several times what I paid for the dongle. I also suspect that the licence binds itself to a particular PC.

The dongle uses a chip made by CONWISE Technology Corporation Ltd. Sadly there are no drivers on their website.

Can anyone suggest a source of free drivers that will enable the dongle to work with Vista, or suggest an alternative product with which they have managed to get working properly.
Google has revealed that I am not the first person to have this problem, and it would not surprise me if IVT have not killed many of the cracked version of thier software that abound..

I thought of trying to download Belkins drivers for their Bluetooth dongle. They won't let you do that for unregistered products 'for copyright reasons'.


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Michael Chare

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