Installing a New Bluetooth Card and Drivers

I just followed the instructions in the service manual. Removed a screw from below. Popped the card in and rebooted. And installed Dell drivers. 5-10 minutes. It worked like a charm.

ok here is the link its step by step you have to update the cards firmware

http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=130179

the drivers CD already has the 4 files for the update in the folder mentioned all you have to do is get the updated Dell drivers so that they can update your firmware then uninstall them and then install the widcomm stack as it shows

Here how it goes

Ok I will help ya since I too recently bought a dell truemobile 350 bluetooth card from bal.....


1. install card

2. boot windows...

3.after windows installs the "windows bluetooth drivers" go to your device manager (right click on my computer, go to properties, then hardware, then hardware)

4. Remove all bluetooth drivers should be 2 entries I believe.

5. go to C:\Windows\Inf (you may need to enable show hidden files)

6. change the name of the following files from " Bth.inf " file to " Bth.inf.old " and " Bth.pnf " file to " Bth.pnf.old "

7. Restart

8. Install the newest dell drivers (the 11-XX... whatever file you have)

9. Go to control panel remove the dell bluetooth drivers from the add/remove programs list

10. download the widcomm drivers from here
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BJ0NDHW6

11. Download Patch after you have downloaded the above file from here
http://www.megaupload.com/ru/?d=HKH6KNHJ

12. add the files from the patch to the same directory as in the widcomm drivers.

13. install widcomm drivers.

14. Reboot

15. Enjoy


Note I have done this and it works but I myself had too many drop outs from my 2200b/g wireless card with the widcomm drivers so I switched back to the newest dell drivers and have had no drop outs since.




P.S. Thanks bal for you help with getting my new 9300 up and running I will be seeing ya soon to get that 7800GTX...Gonna Be Freakin' Sweet!!!

yes you have a truemobile bluetooth 350

Wha tis the advantage of the Widcomm drivers over the built in MS ones?

WIDCOMM HOWTO : http://www.badgermail.net/wiki/index.php/WIDCOMM

The WIDCOMM drivers have a lot more to them, more functions and more options. I have problems with them and my phone (k750) though, no such problems with the MS ones though...

with the default drivers windows installs, what does the bluetooth show up as in device manager? i went through the whole thing and nothing was labeled bluetooth. i know it installed because i have the bluetooth icon in my tray. I cant get the dell drivers to install, they keep saying 'press fn f2 to enable bluetooth', but that doesnt make a difference...
it also appears as it stands now, that the bluetooth cant detect anything (i had 3 phones discoverable, and it saw none)

i've never had a prob with BT until today... damn good thing too cause the touchpad on the XPS is such crap (God i miss TrackPoint's)...

i re-imaged my C: drive from a Ghost image (btw, 6GB in 6.5 minutes lol Firewire 800) and no BT no matter what i did... had a Dell XPS tech troubleshoot it for me but he gave up and is sending me a new BT card...

since i had nothin' to lose i opened the BT compartment and reseated the card... when i rebooted there it was in device manager...

btw, for the question about Device Mangler, err Manager, it shows up in 2 places...

1) as a separate item "Bluetooth Radios"
2) under Network adapters as "Bluetooth Personal Area Network from TOSHIBA"

Can someone advise me where to get the bluetooth for my Dell 9300. I cant seem to find it for sale on Dell's site ?

And what is the best wireless keyboard & mouse to use with it ?

You my friend have a PM and I use the MX5000 but I am looking at the dinovo also

http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/pr...ONTENTID=10777

there ya go bro

so buy from office depot and Ebay return the office depot one once the ebay on gets to you