Thread: N800 Net access at Cafe with Wifi Dongle
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travis is offline travis
2007-02-11 , 02:57
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When you give it the driver CD it installs the drivers AND the Bluetooth stack, usually Widcomm, but sometimes something else. And a BT stack is not native to Windows XP.
Thanks, wodin. Presumably, the drivers could be bundled on the USB bluetooth dongle and so no CD would be required. That is what my link above seems to state (and if not, just download them at home first on your thumb drive):
The built-in Bluetooth® wireless technology makes a computer communicate with other Bluetooth® -enabled devices freely and effortlessly. Additionally, the BT007Si Bluetooth® USB Adapter also bundles a Bluetooth® software for performing wireless applications such as file transfer, network access, dial-up networking and so on.

Moreover, an innovative Bluetooth® profile “Human Interface Device (HID)” , “Advance Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP)”, and “Basic Image Profile (BIP)” are included to enable your computer to use Bluetooth® keyboard and mouse, stereo headphone, and received pictures from Bluetooth mobile phones directly.
. . .
System Support
Windows XP/2000/ME/98SE
(The BT007Si is driven by the bundled IVT BlueSoleil Bluetooth software or Windows XP SP2 Bluetooth stack)
That link also states that Microsoft has a bluetooth stack as part of XP SP2. But perhaps it must still be downloaded (e.g., it is available but not bundled by default).

Using the D-Link Wifi USB , I did NOT follow the instructions to install with their setup program first. I plugged in the USB adapter and then "fed" it the drivers. It recognized the
DLINK and put a Networking Application in the Tray at the bottom right of the screen, without a reboot.
Sounds great! How much is the D-Link Wi-Fi USB adaptor?

As stephen stated, if any of this bluetooth software required a reboot, we would just be plain out of luck for this use case.

Is there any way to do a wired connection with an N800? This is what folks do when they bring in their laptop, but the cafe does not have wireless. They plug the ethernet plug into their laptop.

Travis