Alternative to Tosh BT Stack

I'd also like to know if theres an alternative. My desktop computer has My Bluetooth Places instead of Bluetooth Information Exchanger and I find it much better than this Toshiba one.

Anyways, this post is basically a bump, feedback would be great

also wondering about this, the toshiba bt stack is included in the ASUS w3v and i'm trying to use the default MS one (windows XP pro has native bluetooth support in SP2)

When I reinstalled XP (MCE to be exact but it shouldn't matter) the windows drivers worked with the bluetooth just fine - no toshiba stack running on mine. So you can probably get it to work by uninstalling the toshiba drivers and just letting windows detect the card.

tried that, didn't work

quick question, for the people using Inspiron 9300's, is the included BT device a "Toshiba RFBUS Driver"?

I decided to go with the Widcomm stack.
OMG, it's a HUGE improvement over the POS toshiba one ASUS included.

Here's the step by step instructions:
http://www.notebookforums.com/showth...12#post1061612

Will that driver work on our i9300 notebooks ?

It is possible to get the Widcomm drivers to work with the i9300 (I have done it and so have a few others). However since Dell has not licensed the Widcomm drivers it is illegal to do. That is why I have not posted a full guide on how to do it. Believe me I would love to do it as the Widcomm drivers blow the Tosh drivers out of the water.

As for Makken's instructions, I don't belive they will work for the i9300. You can see my post in his thread. His instructions on modding the .inf probably will work (although there is a better way) however he did not patch the "BTTray.exe" and "BTStackserver.exe" files. Widcomm has checks in those files to verifiy that the BT device is licenced for those drivers and the Truemobile 350 is not. My guess is that Makken downloaded a modified version of those drivers but the ones he linked to are not modded.

Martian

yeah, sorry guys,
i forgot about the whole patching exe and dll steps. if using widcomm is indeed illegal, then i guess i really shouldn't post it at all.

not that it would stop anyone with access to google from finding it

OK, I found a fix...of sorts. This is easier then the method described above. This page descibes how to uninstall the poorly designed Toshiba Bluetooth stack and reinstall the better designed Microsoft XP SP2 Bluetooth stack.

http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/t...sp?soid=842293

Once I followed the instructions to reinstall the XP SP2 bluetooth stack, the annoying bluetooth hardware disconnect everytime I went into standby went away.

I discourage anyone from installing the Toshiba Bluetooth stack on the i6000. I am sure it is the same for any laptop for that matter - but I only have experience with this issue on the i6000.

[Bluetooth Stack for Windows by Toshiba -> Microsoft Windows XP SP2 Stack]

CAUTION: Before performing any of the procedures detailed below, it's necessary to shut down the Bluetooth driver stack, as follows: Look in the Windows 'SysTray' (to the right of the Windows Task Bar, which is usually located at the bottom edge of the screen) for an icon in the form of either an antenna or a blue 'B'. If you see either one of these icons, right-click it, and then choose Exit – which will shut down the Bluetooth driver stack.

1. Download the install program "Bluetooth Monitor for MS stack Version 2.00" or later from the Toshiba WEB site. This does not actually install the Bluetooth Monitor for MS Stack, it places this readme on the system desktop and copies the installation executable to C:\Toshiba\BTMonitor\

(You can find the Toshiba Bluetooth Monitor for Microsoft WindowsXP XP2 here:
http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/t...sp?soid=841048)

2. Open the Control Panel and uninstall "Bluetooth Stack for Windows by Toshiba", which is currently installed, then reboot your PC.

3. Run BTMON2INST.exe located in the folder c:\toshiba\BTmonitor to install the Bluetooth Monitor for MS Stack. Once installation is complete, restart the system to complete all changes.

4. "Microsoft Windows XP SP2 Stack" will be installed automatically. Open the Control Panel and open "Bluetooth Device" to configure the settings (to display the Bluetooth icon to the task bar, open "Options" tab and enable "Show the Bluetooth icon in the notification area").

Hope this helps someone.

After reading that others had managed to get patched Widcomm drivers working I did a little searching for the procedure. After a little Googling and a bit of magic I managed to procure the latest Widcomm drivers. The process was very straightforward but may be a little bit of a pain in the ass for those not overly inclined to dig through the net for the latest drivers and functioning patches. If someone has somewhere to host them I would be more than happy to upload them. They are working quite well with my XPS2 and 350 Bluetooth Module. I have put the magical files into the install program so there is no messy install, need to run in safe mode or any of that other nonsense.

Any chance you could email that to me? nicholas.daigle@gmail.com

If possible, please email all files + instructions to fusionfx@onestar.com.au ..

Thanks

The file is around 30MB so I won't be emailing it out to everyone. If someone had a reasonably fast place to host the file I'd up it there so everyone could grab it. I'd also send it to someone if they were willing to go through the hassle of setting up and seeding a torrent or the like. In any event, someone let me know if they can help.

How about since I was first, you could just email it to me.

Then maybe I could email it to the next person in line, and he could email it to the next person in line, and so on.