Thats as far as this tip goes and I’m afraid I have no Bluetooth keyboard or mouse to try and assist with other Bluetooth issues.

[)amien

I have a Macbook 1.83 Ghz. Latest model. Bit new to Mac. I didn’t have the ealier version of bootcamp. Anything else you need to know?
I think I’m choosing the right device. There are two USB Human interface devices and both with the ID’s you mentioned and I tried the method on both of them with the same results.

Thanks

Make sure you chose the correct device in option 2 depending on what hardware you had.

[)amien

“The specified location does not contain location about your hardare”.

Any ideas? I’m a bit lost.

It detects the keyboard when I add the device under ‘Bluetooth Devices’, but the little balloon message in the bottom right of the screen comes up saying there was a problem installing my device and it might not work properly.

I’m installing via control panel – bluetooth devices. I search for it and it finds my keyboard, I then choose ‘Choose a passkey for me’ and hit next. It installs the device, generating a passkey, but never giving me an opportunity to type it in on my keyboard.

It then goes back to the devices screen after a few balloons saying ‘found new hardware’, etc.

Under ‘Bluetooth Devices’, it says ‘passkey enabled’ for a few minutes, then changes back to ‘No passkey’.

When I look under Device Manager I have this:

Intel(R) 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB Universal Host Controller – 27CB
- USB Root Hub
- Apple Built-In Bluetooth
- Bluetooth Device (Personal Area Network) #2
- Bluetooth Device (RFCOMM Protocol TDI) #2
- Microsoft Bluetooth Enumerator
- Bluetooth HID Device
-HID Keyboard Device

None of these entries have the exclamation mark.

Any ideas on what I’m missing?

Thanks,
Trey

Ian, the solution here is for when your Bluetooth is totally gone. It seems you have a completely different problem.

You won’t see the Bluetooth kicker once it’s done it’s job (kicked the Apple and Microsoft Bluetooth devices into place).

The yellow exclamation marks you are seeing are for the few devices still not supported under BootCamp – namely the Infrared, Hardware Monitoring and Backlit Keyboard.

As I don’t use either a Bluetooth keyboard or mouse I’m afraid I can’t help any further other.

I’d recommend heading to the Apple Discussions group and posting the exact steps/message you get each time you reboot so people can see what exactly is going wrong. It sounds to me like they are somehow unpairing.

[)amien

Sorry to bother everyone when most of you seem to have got it working, but does anyone have the problem where you have to reinstall the bluetooth mouse and/or keyboard every time you boot into XP?

I have a 20″ Imac, and I don’t have any devices with USB\VID_05ac&PID_1000 in them at all.

Here’s what I have in Device Manager:
- Apple Built-in Bluetooth and Microsoft Bluetooth
- Under Human Interface Devices I have 2 Bluetooth HID devices, neither of which have the above PID 1000 thing. I also have 2 USB Human Interface Devices, again neither of them have that number, and one of them has the dreaded yellow ‘!’. That is USB\VID_05ac&PID_8240 ..etc etc…
- Under Universal Serial Bus Controllers I have heaps of things, none of which have the USB\VID_05ac&PID_1000.

Which device should I reinstall the Apple bluetooth kicker drivers for? I don’t have anything in Device Manager called Bluetooth Kicker…sorry if these are all dumbass questions.

Does it have anything to do with the passkeys you set for your mouse and keyboard? What should you choose when you install them in the Bluetooth devices bit?

Any ideas how to make it stick?

cheers,
Ian