Re: 6230i Bluetooth problem

PCSuite needs a "Bluetooth Serial Port" configured. Sounds like your actual
Bluetooth is working fine (pairing etc) but serial port isn't. I have spent
literally days messing about with similar problems with MS ActiveSync. Here
are my tips. Just to cheer you up PCSuite seems to be a lot more robust and
you should be able to get it to go.

1. Windows XP SP2 introduces its own Bluetooth protocol stack. Previously
Windows did not do Bluetooth and you had to use the manufacturer-supplied
stack. If you have XP/SP2 then make sure you are using the SP2 one. You can
tell this by running devmgmt.msc (Device Manager) then clicking on Bluetooth
icon - the MS one is "Bluetooth Generic Radio.) Switching between Windows
and OEM stack is easy using the "update driver" right-click option and
selecting all the "do not search for new driver" items till you get to the
one where you can pick from list. The OEM driver often has "CSR" (Cambridge
Silicon Radio chipset) in its name.

2. The point of using Windows stack is that you can mess about with ports
and at least with Widcomm you can't. I had fought with my config to such an
extent that there were over a dozen badly-configured serial ports hanging
around. If you get rid of them at least you can be starting from cleaner
system. First you need to be able to see what's there:

To see nonpresent devices in Device Manager, open a command prompt:

C:\> set DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES=1
C:\> devmgmt.msc

Then on Device manager click | View | Show hidden" devices | and your
nonpresent devices will appear. You can then delete nonpresent devices like
your old adapter, or you can delete both instances and XP will reinstall it
with a name more to your liking.

To put this environment variable into XP permanently, open SystemControl
Panel, Advanced tab, Environment Variables button, System Variables:

DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES=1

So use this to clean up your port configuration and fingers crossed you can
get PCSuite to accept that there is a port it can use. As previous people
have said also make sure any software firewalls including the SP2 inbuilt
one are not blocking you.

Finally it doesn't seem to be included with all vendor's stacks but with my
Ezurio (previously TDK) adapter contains the spylite.exe diagnostic
application. This seems to work with other Widcomm stacks. Output is a bit
specialised and I don't understand it completely but can be very handy when
troubleshooting Bluetooth problems.

I got much of this info from sites below and they could be worth searching
more completely if you still have problems.

http://help.lockergnome.com/lofiversion/index.php/t26563.html
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?ForumId=8&TopicId=422


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