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Hello!

What amazes me is that the super-cheap generic USB Bluetooth adapters install natively in Linux - once the fixes in the tutorial here on the forum are applied. However, for Windows, I need Blue Soleil - which, after much grief, I just caved in and spent $21 to get version 9.2.483.0, so I can use the dongles in both Linux and Windows...

73 DE N4RPS
Rob

Hi Rob,

You didn't say which Windows.?
I thought with 8.0, Bluetooth just worked OOB.?
Maybe you have 7.?

I got my Bluetooth to work... with your help

https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/index...24#msg9224

Dave

Hello!

(01-02-2015, 11:50 AM)Wirezfree link Wrote: [ -> ]Hi Rob,

You didn't say which Windows.?
I thought with 8.0, Bluetooth just worked OOB.?
Maybe you have 7.?

Actually, depending on the machine, I have both 7 and 8.1.

Full Bluetooth support OOB is a hit-or-miss proposition in Windows 8/8.1, and generic adapters seem to be a miss. The only way they seem to work is with Blue Soleil - which, at $21, cost me 11 times what the adapter did, but I need to use one adapter in both OSes.

(01-02-2015, 11:50 AM)Wirezfree link Wrote: [ -> ]I got my Bluetooth to work... with your help

https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/index...24#msg9224

Dave

You're welcome. Happy to help. I seem to be using it myself quite a bit lately...

73 DE N4RPS
Rob