I bought a Belkin F8T020 PDA bluetooth adaptor, which I wanted to use on my laptop (HP/Compaq nx9005). I was aware that you could "convert" this PDA adaptor for use in a PCMCIA slot by using what Belkin refer to as the F8T007. This then "becomes" product F8T006-PC.

I couldn't get the proper Belkin compact flash 2 PCMCIA convertor (F8T007) so I took a risk and bought a standard convertor from SanDisk instead.

When I try the Belkin F8T006-PC set up, all goes well until it says "Plug in the Bluetooth device" Which I do, but then it doesn't recognise it. At the same time the XP "Found new hardware" box fires into life, and states it can see a "CF_GENERIC" device.

Even when I try to instal the card manually using device manager and pointing to the correct folder which is supposed to have the drivers inside, it doesn't work.

I am wondering if there could be something "special" inside the F8T007 convertor sleeve, that changes how my computer sees the new hardware ? ie tells it this is a Bluetooth device and not a CF_Device ? If so, is there a way to do the install manually ?

PS : my laptop is running WinXP SP1, and I have installed a few Bluetooth USB adaptors previously with no problems at all, so I suspect this is a hardware type issue.

Any ideas welcomed......