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