ISSCBTA Driver for Windows XP

[Jonny Wright]

I have bought a cheap Bluetooth USB dongle for my PC and am trying now to install it. I had it installed on my old PC using the software it comes with but I did have issues with it so decided this time around I am not going to use the software that came with the dongle.

However Windows will not install the driver for this device from either the Windows CD or from the hardware CD. I have to install the software it seems to be able to get the device to work and the even then the device is still not seen by Windows as a "proper" Bluetooth device (ie I get no "Bluetooth options in Control Panel etc).

I have looked on MS.com and other various forums to try and find a workaround for this but cannot seem to find any.

I was hoping somebody may have an idea or maybe experienced this before. I have posted below one method I have tried but this did not work either. I got a "device cannot start" error.

This is what I found, you can try that if you wish at your own risks (Replace Kensington by yours) Good luck.

Kinda cumbersome, but in the end, it should work.

You'll need Windows Service Pack 2

First be sure to not install the drivers off the CD for the Bluetooth card. If you have, go back and uninstall it.

Plug in your Kensington USB Bluetooth Dongle. You may either cancel the installation or choose to go with the installation, but do not install the drivers off the CD.

Go into Device Manager and look under 'Other Devices.'

Select it and go to 'Details', you will see something like this there:

USB\VID_0db0&PID_697A\5&E831D1A&0&2

If there is an option called "Hardware Ids", select this option. In the area below will appear that devices Hardware ID or PnPID. You need to copy one of those strings EXACTLY from that area, into the bth.inf file.

This part here - 'USB\VID_0db0&PID_697A' - is your Plug and Play Identification (PnPID).

You will need to locate your Bluetooth inf file: %windir%\inf\bth.inf

Opened it in notepad, read through on about line 60, under one of the device sections, and add your USB adapters PnPID like so:

Kensington USB Bluetooth Adapter= BthUsb, USB\Vid_0db0&Pid_697A

You'll see others listed there, follow their format.

Save the file, and then delete the "USB Device" from device manager, and un-plug, and re-plug the Bluetooth adapter into your computer system. When prompted, let Windows search for a device driver, and it should pick up the adapter, and install the correct drivers for it. Also, there should now be an icon in the control panel for Bluetooth configuration.

Thanks for reading and hope somebody can help!

Jonny Wright

[Jonny Wright]

Anybody any ideas? :-(

[GusValentine]

I'm not sure if I can actually help, but I have had a bluetooth adapter for a couple of years, I plug it in and it just works, Windows XP SP2 detects it right away and automatically installs its own generic Microsoft drivers for it. Mine is a Linksys. Yours apparently requires specific drivers for some reason, as I've gathered after some searching.

First, go to Control Panel, Add or Remove Programs, Add/Remove Windows Components, click on Network Services, click the Details button, tick UPnP User Interface, click OK, click Next...

Now, someone claims these drivers work for your adapter model:

01.IVT BlueSoleil (Std) Version 2.3 release /Multilingual

http://ivtcorporation.com/download/index.php

I got the above link from here:

http://www.drivers.com/article/878/

Update, try here, these might be newer:

http://bluesoleil.com/download/

Edited December 4, 2007 by Gus.