Billionton PCMCIA works with WIDCOMM 5.0.1.2500

[Puppinello]

In sweet memories of Billionton owners.

Guys. As well as many other happy owners Billionton PCMCIA, I long time had sexual attitudes with this device, trying to pick up it to new WIDCOMM drivers.
However today in the morning, in delirium, I have decided to try simply different the driver from WIDCOMM - 5.0.1.2500. And so that turns out! Billionton PCMCIA Bluetooth Device - not that other, as TDK Bluetooth PC Card. Simply fairy tale! With this driver all works! The Proof is the fact I write it now here it in 120 kilometers from Moscow (no cable or sat. network) through GPRS and HP6515, connected with notebook on Bluetooth.
Instructions:
1. Do not pulling out card from PCMCIA slot, install WIDCOMM - 5.0.1.2500.
2. Unpack DATA1. CAB somewhere, the main thing remember where
restart or someting to make new drivers work. (Remember update ore patch the lisence)
3. Go in Device Manager and find your device which can be presented or as Billionton Bluetooth PCMCIA Card (if not up to the end have communicated previous the driver) or as the strange device with "?" - PCMCIA Bluetooth Card. Anyhow you will see it.
4. Say - Update Driver.
5. Press, You know that you need to install by yourself.
6. Chose, that you need to install Bluetooth Device.
7. Press " Have Disk "
8. If all the same you have remembered where have unpacked DATA1. CAB, specify this dir.
9. In devices WIDCOMM (There will be Microsoft and Phillips) find TDK Bluetooth PC Card and safely put it.
10. Skip that in Bluetooth Properties is written "Device Not Found". Just do not look at this section (tab). Forgat about it...
11. Enjoy new working drivers and set up your Bluetooth Neighborhood or whatever you want to set up.


Take care of your brain.

[][No_WaY]

Thanx alot m8 at the end someone found solution for us.

regards
][No_WaY

[kocoman]

Thanks. I have a Belkin F8T002 PCMCIA that works with the 5.0.1.2500 driver under Win98SE, it says "Bluetooth Device not detected" in the Diagnostics page, but in Device manager it detects as Philips cardbus Bluetooth Dongle. Using a "Look for devices" works fine. Now I can use the v5 instead of the v1 included with the card. The audio profile works too. Although I would like to update the bluecore01 firmware there. Its at 0077 version which is very old. Thanks again.

[howi]

And, it goes beyond 5.0 but mine (the Bluetooth 2.0 version) works with 5.1.0.1100 as well.

I have messed around with the Widcomm / Toshiba stacks for 2 days and found that I have to modify the INF file - NOT just the VID/PID with license patcher, but also have to change the ClassGUID. I think that it may have something to do with the added native Microsoft Bluetooth stack in SP2 and my computer seems like it so much! Unless I change the ClassGUID in the INF file to match the M$ one, otherwise, it won't go no matter how many times the license patcher has applied.

Go luck everyone who uses the Billionton card.

[Icarus3000]

I have the 5.1.0.2500 stack, but can't get it to recognize my billionton card at all.

Can you please explain which files you modified and how you modified them?

Many thanks,
Icarus

[Proffa]

Thanks! I got my Billionton to work whit drivers version 5.1.0.1100.

To Icarus3000:
1) I opened the Data1.cab (Win32\Data1.cab) whit WinRAR
--> extracted it known place (eg. c:\temp\widcomm)
2) Then I installed the widocmm soft (setup.exe)
3) --> reboot the machine
4) Whit License Patcher opened the license.dat (in the drivers package)
--> Save --> copy the license file into the widcomm program files folder
(C:\Program Files\WIDCOMM\Bluetooth Software)
5) From the Device Manager I opened the "Bluetooth PC Card" under Bluetooth Devices
--> Driver -> Update Driver... -> Install specific location (advanced)
-> Don't search. -> Have Disk... -> Choose the location where Data1.cab is extracted (c:\temp\widcomm) -> Take check off from "Show compatible hardware"
-> From model list select "TDK Bluetooth PC Card" (I had many TDK PC Card in my list, but I selected the second one)
6) Reboot, all ok!

[Icarus3000]

Proffa:

Thanks!

Right now I managed to get the Toshiba stack to work. And it works with my bluetooth mouse and my plantronics headset. The only problem with the headset is I actually have to delete and re-search for new devices every time I rebooth the computer. It's a bit of a nuisance but it works.

I'll follow your directions and see if the Widcomm stack works any better.


-Icarus3000

[Kermitt]

To Proffa,

I have a Sitecom CN-504 Bluetooth PC Card, which seems to be a Billionton PC Card. Hopefully the installation of Widcom 5.1.0.1100 also works with this PC card.
Is it necessary to uninstall the the old Version 1 Software?

Thanks for your help

Kermitt

[Ninja1]

FYI, This worked for my Zoom 4312 card. I had to set it up as the first TDK card to get a properly functioning BT connection. BTW, this was with Vista Ultimate RTM on a Gateway cx2724. I've been trying off and on to figure this out since beta 1 and it only took me 3 hours once I found this site...go figure. Thanks to everyone here.

Ninja1

[rjbutler]

Ninja1 -- can you clarify? Which version of the Widcomm drivers are you running with Vista? Are you using the Zoom 4312 or 4312A (the ROHS version)?


With the Toshiba drivers, I can't use A2DP and my mouse (a Microsoft presentation mouse 8000) at the same time (the mouse gets very unresponsive). I am hoping the widcomm drivers will solve this, but am afraid its a hardware issue.

[wwu123]

Thanks to this forum, I was also able to update to Widcomm 5.1.0.1100 drivers for a Belkin F8T006 Compactflash Bluetooth card in PC Card adapter, from the circa 2003 1.4.X.X version from Belkin. It uses a Broadcom chipset.

I followed the general steps in the "How to install Widcomm drivers" thread, but took the step of getting btwusb.inf from the original drivers, since the Device Manager does not report the VID and PID in the Hardware Details, which said:

PCMCIA\Bluetooth_BT0100M--5768
PCMCIA\Bluetooth_BT0100M--0000-0000
PCMCIA\Bluetooth_BT0100M-0000-0000

After replacing btwusb.inf in the 5.1.0.1100 drivers with the old Belkin one, I installed the drivers. My card was then recognized as a "CC&C Bluetooth Compactflash Card" and installed successfully.

Strangely, I do not find any reference to this CC&C card anywhere in either the old or new btwusb.inf files, so I don't know where it came from, so I'm not sure for this card whether the file replace step above was actually needed or not.

[Ninja1]

Originally Posted by rjbutler

Ninja1 -- can you clarify? Which version of the Widcomm drivers are you running with Vista? Are you using the Zoom 4312 or 4312A (the ROHS version)?


With the Toshiba drivers, I can't use A2DP and my mouse (a Microsoft presentation mouse 8000) at the same time (the mouse gets very unresponsive). I am hoping the widcomm drivers will solve this, but am afraid its a hardware issue.

The 4312 retail card and 5.1.0.1100. Of course, now that I deleted my initial Vista (an upgrade over the betas) and went for a clean install I've run into problems. The drivers and such install fine, the card works, but My BT Places keeps bringing up the BT setup wizard...Ah well, par for a crappy week!

Ninja1

[donedds]

I'm not able to get the Zoom 4312 card to work at all with Vista. I'm part of a computer consulting firm so usually I can figure stuff out but this one is kicking my butt. I'm running on a Toshiba laptop. Any suggestions or outline of steps would be appreciated.