From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.100.26]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.9) with ESMTPA id 340146 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 07 Sep 2006 16:55:03 -0400 Message-ID: <45008726.7060702@2rosenthals.com> Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 16:55:02 -0400 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060904 MultiZilla/1.8.3.0a SeaMonkey/1.5a MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: OT Bluetooth References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 09/07/06 04:42 pm, Carl Gehr thus wrote : > 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? >> > > TIA, > Carl > > Carl, please refresh my memory: what notebook do you have? -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------ Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC Accountants / Network Consultants New York / Northern Virginia www.2rosenthals.com eComStation Consultants www.ecomstation.com Novell Users Int'l www.novell.com/openenterpriseserver Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com ------------------------------------------------------------