Bluetooth Peripheral Device cannot be found.

Can you find the VID (vendor ID) and PID (product ID)?

Do you know where to locate those? It should be listed under Details tab
for the device in Device Manager.

On the Details tab, underneath Property change Device description to
Hardware Ids by clicking on it and scrolling down.

It may look like this...

USB\VID_047D&PID_105E&REV_0000

[nerys]

GRRRRR I just plugged it into the desktop PC for the first time and it works without asking for drivers. Tested connection works flawlessly. I think this is the good dongle.

SO either this is the "good" dongle and i need to dig up the other dongle OR there is something different about this computer even though both system were installed from exactly the same XP Disk.

I will dig up the other dongle and let you know.

Just for the heck of it here is this dongles information
Off course can't copy and paste that :-)

BTH\MS_RFCOMM\6&1E6C5899&0&0

there is a PAN entry as well:

BTH\MS_BTHPAN\6&1E6C5899&0&2

Those are both under Network Adaptors

There is a Bluetooh Section titled

Bluetooth Radios
Microsoft Bluetooth Enumerator
Silicon Wave Bluetooth Wireless Adapter

AHH I think this is what you wanted

USB\VID_0C10&PID_0000\5&34A681E0&0&3

I will MARK this dongle now since I know it works on at least one machine and then try it on all the machines to see if its the dongle or the machines.

I will also find that other dongle and report back.

Information I found on Google seems to indicate Silicon Wave Bluetooth
Wireless Adapter uses Broadcom bluetooth chip.

http://www.broadcom.com/support/bluetooth/update.php

[cindythegreat]

I had the same problem when I got a new headset. After searching online for weeks I found this which fixed it