I've had it with trying to get ICS working through bluetooth
It was working before on SP1
My Laptop used to connect through Widcomm drivers and a dongle, to another dongle on the desktop, and then on out to the tinternet and beyond and back again without so much as a wheeze. But those were the good old days.
I bought myself an Mp3 player and needed the faster USB2 offered by Service Pack two, so I upgraded the desktop machine and lost ICS forever.
Have since tried many many many many things to get this working again. I've been to generic drivers, and back to widcomm's clean installed. Tried countless combinations of DNS servers and IP addresses and firewall settings.
The laptop runs XP home, now also with SP2.
I can Ping IP adresses on the www but I have no DNS capability and that's as far as the story goes.
I surrender. I give up. SP2 is not having anymore of my hair or my time. I'll just get hold of wireless and a wireless hub and kiss this whole bluetooth SP2 ICS thing goodbye. WHat a pain in the posterior it has all been. Do you notice how the largest number of posts by far in these forums is on the bluetooth one? No wonder. And what the hell were windows thinking when they decided that generic bluetooth support wouldn't bother to allow ICS over PAN because "it's not a network". Grrrrrr.
I'd like to put my bluetooth dongles in the coffee grounder, and Service Pack 2.
Yours,
Well and truly beaten,
Potato