On Thu, 07 Sep 2006 19:33:20 +0100 (BST), Dave Saville wrote:
>I know there are no Bluetooth drivers for OS/2, but has anyone had any luck
>with either a USB dongle or a PCMCIA card?
>
>--
>Regards
>
>Dave Saville
Interesting you should comment... Here's a post that I made to the
eCS Hardware NewsGroup a few days ago. No response yet, but maybe
someone here can explain what, IN eCS, turned my Bluetooth device light
on, at least implying that it was ready to transfer data when there is
no driver for the device...????
> Copy of post to eCS Hardware NG
>This has been a very strange sequence of events:
>* This system is over 4 years old. I've never used nor seen the
> Bluetooth light on.
>* Just by chance, I happened to notice the Bluetooth light 'on'
> indicating power has been applied to the adapter. The only system
> change was the application of the LVM, Dani and mouse driver updates
> a week or so ago. Nothing that should have connected to the
> Bluetooth adapter.
>* I could find no way to manually turn the adapter off. Not even by
> using the BIOS update at boot time. Rebooting did nothing to help.
>* Then, my system hung up with what appeared to be a HD loop. I had
> to power the system off to get it freed up.
>* When the system came back, after doing all the normal CHKDSK scans
> on the HD, the Bluetooth was now off. A couple of reboots and it
> is still off.
>
>Two questions, please:
>1) What might have caused the Bluetooth to activate/power on?
>2) Is there some way to force the Bluetooth off?
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