My Setup: Dell Latitude D800 XP SP2, Motorola V600 on UK Orange. I bought a Dell Bluetooth unit (TrueMobile 300) and installed it fine with driver vA05. Then updated the driver to the (non-signed) Dell one instead of the Microsoft one - it now has WIDCOMM 3.0.1.804. I was then able to change the icon from blue/red to blue/white and then pair up with my phone - so it then went blue/green. I also edited the modem initialization string to at+cgdcont=1,"ip","orangeinternet".


My Problem: I want to establish an internet connection so that I can get email when out and about, so I set up a DUN to dial *99# with username/password blank. It dials out and connects at 115kbs but I can't browse any sites or even ping a website. The browser immediately says "Can't find server" and all pings come back unanswered.

I even uninstalled the Dell bluetooth unit and installed a cheapo USB one that had worked fine in an old laptop (XP SP1) and got the same result, so I'm guessing it's a problem with this laptop or XP SP2. As with a number of bluetooth problems, this has already consumed many hours of increasing hair-pulling and several searches haven't come up with any clues, so I'm banking on someone here having a brainwave. I have read about later versions of the WIDCOMM driver, but given that my cheapo USB bluetooth dongle worked fine on an old laptop but not this one I'm not so sure that would help.

Please help!!

Paul