bluetooth shows up as bcm43142a0 in device manager

my system tray (is that what you might call it? the one on the right bottom corner) also shows the much relieving Bluetooh Logo. Installed it and Voila! Now my Control Panel shows 'Bluetooth Local COM'. It 's not listed under the exact model/type for my TZ18 but I just picked one that looked close: TZ180.

Then it dawned on me that I should check for drivers for bluetooth. I wont bother mention which one because I ended up not installing it and went on another way.Ĥ. So I searched for Toshiba Bluetooth and came up with lots of sites from which I can download the driver/stack or whichever they call it. I also noted that the bluetooth hardware apparently is made by Toshiba (in a Sony machine).ģ. Went to check under Control Panel > Device Manager if bluetooth is indeed installed. But I wondered if this has part in making the later steps work out.Ģ. Not sure which of the steps below did it finally but here's the rundown:ġ. However, there is still no options to use this device, anywhere.Īny information would be greatly appriciated.Īlso: The built in help for vista bluetooth hardware is mostly useless, as almost all of it refers to different options within the bluetooth menu in the control panel.Īfter a good hour of tinkering I finally got Bluetooth appeared on my Control Panel. The bluetooth device was succesfuly installed (as reported by the driver installing within vista), and it shows up as a bluetooth device in the device manager, with the correct name, and no issues reported. Searching for bluetooth, using the quick search, gives me only a link to the networking section, and once that is clicked, there is no more mention of bluetooth, anywhere (other then in the help files).

My problem (and some others, as the other thread shows) is that within the control panel, there are no options for bluetooth, anywhere. I thought I would post this over here as well (also in a continued thread in the hardware section) since, within the control panel, bluetooth is also supposed to show up under the networking section.

Bluetooth shows up as bcm43142a0 in device manager