BlueSoleil – what a piece of rubbish!
I recently bought a cheap USB Bluetooth dongle because my older Acer TravelMate 4070 came without Bluetooth support. Big mistake. The dongle (a Laser N1968) ships with BlueSoleil – a suite of Bluetooth drivers for windows. My Nokia 6110 Navigator and PC Suite simply hate BlueSoleil – after umpteen pairings and unpairings of the devices, driver installations and re-installations and checking all congifurations, I simply cannot get BlueSoleil to work properly with PC Suite. What a piece of rubbish! C’mon people, Bluetooth is all about interoperability!
- PC Suite version : 7.0.8.2
- BlueSoleil version: 2.1.2.1
Will try the Widcomm drivers as an alternative to BlueSoleil and see how they go…
Did you find a soloution, other than the bin?
Hi Tim,
Unfortunately not. The Widcomm drivers didn’t work very well either, so I’ve basically decided not to use the Laser N1968 Bluetooth dongle – and write off the $17 that it cost me. It’s so frustrating though – one of the things that has helped the PC industry is interoperability and this is sadly lacking in the Bluetooth area..
Hi Kathy. I also bought a cheap BT dongle that came with version 1.x of BlueSoleil. After some grief, I did manage to get it to work with my Jabra BT620s stereo headset which was the main reason I got it anyway.
Recently I discovered that the current version of BS (ironic isn’t it?) is 6.x. Today I downloaded version 6 and installed it. It works MUCH better than the early versions, and IVT admits on their website that they resell crappy old versions to dongle vendors to ship out with their product. If you want the current version without restrictions you have to buy it for a whopping $54 USD, as the old versions don’t entitle you to an upgrade. About what I’d expect from a French company.
i have the laser ni968 the BlueSoleil software that came with it is crap
I have exactly the same issues and was a bit surprised at the cost of version 6 – and that the adapter came with such an old version! I used OSX the other day and the bluetooth integration was exceptional, I wish Windows land would improve on this. Anyway, this (http://www.shootingsoftware.com/Widcomm.htm) worked for me, add an entry to a windows inf file and it’ll use the WinXP built in bluetooth stack. Much better integration and it works. Rather underwhelming this wasn’t automatic.
Yeah I bought 2 of them to connect a pair of PC’s , and WinXP fails to recognize them on both pc’s, even after installing the so called “drivers” on the disc ….pfffft :/
Hi…
i bought a cheap blutooth dongle and it came without the instalation CD but was supposed to work without any drivers..
it actually workd without drivers on other pc’s but not on mine which is a vista home basic