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Old 01-05-2005, 01:17 PM
Alamo
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Re: Toshiba M200 - Bluetooth Question

Man...this is a bummer. Nothing shows up in the Device Manager for
BlueTooth. Oh well!!!

Thanks,
tommyt


"JDThree [MVP]" <john@removeforspam.engagenet.com> wrote in message
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> On 1/5/2005 12:05:28 PM, "Alamo" wrote:
>>Thats a good question. How do I figure it out? This laptop was ordered
>>from our corporate office, i just assumed it had it installed. Is there a
>>good way of finding out, short of asking to see a copy of the
>>quote/invoice
>>?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Tommyt

>
> You could look in the device manager - see if you see any bluetooth
> devices.
>
> My M200 also came with all the bluetooth software, and no hardware to back
> it
> up.
>
> Apparently Toshiba just uses one image for the entire platform line,
> regardless of the presense of bluetooth or not.
>
> If there's no bluetooth equipment, then you have an answer. If something
> shows there because of the software that was installed, you should be able
> to
> remove it, then redetect hardware, and have it show up again if it's
> really
> there. I don't recall offhand what showed in mine since the first thing I
> did
> when I got it was rebuild it to a clean image rather than use what came
> with
> it.
>
>
> --
> John



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Old 01-05-2005, 01:17 PM