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A possible Bluetooth network connection fix
Authored by: bdumes on Aug 03, '05 12:07:47PM

I spent a couple of hours yesterday trying to set up my Nokia 3650 as a modem with my G4 iBook. I had previously used it with Panther without hassle, but had all kinds of problems; it started a couple of processes that could not be killed (even using "sudo kill -9 xxxx") and no new processes could be spawned. I couldn't even shutdown gracefully.

I finally found that if I booted the iBook with the Bluetooth Dongle plugged in, all was well. Apparently Tiger needs to have it in place at boot time to create the pseudo devices. After that, you can remove it and insert it again as you wish.

I mentioned this to a friend of mine who happens to be writing a book regarding Mac networking and he said that he'd been inserting his Bluetooth dongle without having had it in place at boot time and had no problem. I can't really explain that one -- so, as in all things, your milage may vary.



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A possible Bluetooth network connection fix
Authored by: burtman on Aug 03, '05 03:57:44PM

I had the exact same issue on my late 2004 iBook, neither of my belkin USB bluetooth dongles fucntion unless they are presant at boot time, otherwise I get the exact same issue as the original poster described. Once booted up with bluetooth the iBook can sleep and have the dongle removed and reinserted in any combination, and it seems to just keep working.



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