[sneakersteve]

After upgrading to Win7. I installed all of the drivers in the list. Including the battery meter/Select Switch. But the installation of the Broadcom Bluetooth driver doesn't seem to install. I get a message that says "Activate Bluetooth usinf Fn+F2 or radio switch" Cancel installation. The FnF2 switch only gives me the option to turn WIFI on or off. Am I missing something?

[holmes4]

Is Bluetooth enabled in the BIOS? I have this combination working on my Mini 9.

[sneakersteve]

Yes. I checked.

[M4strDr490n]

I am new to the forums, and I've only had my Mini 9 for a few days, so I am definitely a newbie here. However, I am an advanced user who works in IT and I can't seem to get my bluetooth working on my Mini 9 either. Hopefully my situation is the same as the OP, so that the additional details I have provided will help them as well.

I have confirmed my bios has it active, and I have attempted to install both of the BT drivers referenced here in the forums. Both tell me to "enable my bluetooth using Fn+2", but when I attempt it, nothing happens. I found the battery/wireless switch app that is linked to elsewhere in the forum so I decided to install that as well, just to be sure. It did not change anything. I still see no noticeable change when I hit Fn+2 and I can not install my driver because the software doesn't see the BT adapter. I doubled checked to make sure that Windows 7 hadn't automatically loaded a bogus driver that was interfering, and I have no BT drivers installed in device manager. My last thought is that my bios is still the original level ("00") I believe, so I was going to attempt a bios upgrade. I am reading up on which level to upgrade to now. I understand that moving to the latest (6) is not advisable for a number of reasons, so I am thinking that I should upgrade to bios level 4 and retest this. What does everyone think? Is that the right path, and is bios level 4 the right one to update to so that I continue to have the option of multi-booting other OSes, and using non-OEM extended batteries.

Thanks for your help, Frank.

[holmes4]

If FN-2 does nothing you do not have the correct wireless switch application installed. You need this one.

[sneakersteve]

I have the correct Battery Meter Wireless Switch. When I hit Fn+2 the only option is to Disabale/Enable WiFi. My wireless WiFi is working fine.

M4strDr490n - I updated my BIOS to the new 06 as well. No Change in the Bluetooth issue.

[robert]

Hi. Have you tried the dell WSED prog to enable bluetooth ?

http://ftp.dell.com/utility/R224279.exe

[M4strDr490n]

That wireless app does allow me to enable and disable my wireless lan with Fn+2, but id doesn't show an option for bluetooth in there, nor do I see BT hardware in my device manager. This is very odd. This may be less of a concern for me since I think I'm going to swap out my wifi mini pcie card for the crystal HD card anyways. I suspect that the BT is included on that card, right? One last last question regarding the bios level, what is the recommended bios level to upgrade to, A05 or A06? I saw some posting on the web not to go to A06 due to so incompatibilities, such as larger batteries, but I also see here in the forums that folks are using A06 with larger batteries, so now I'm not sure. Any help would be appreciated.

[holmes4]

No, the Broadcom Crystal card does not include Bluetooth. You will also lose WiFi doing that.

MyDigitalDiscount sells an 8-cell battery that does work with A06 - I have one.

[M4strDr490n]

Sorry, I wasn't clear... I actually meant to ask if BT was included on the WiFi mini PCIe card that is in the netbook now. I think I found the answer to that, which is, no, there is another BT module in the netbook. It doesn't appear to be integrated onto the WiFi card.

Good to hear about the battery also. I will be looking into that soon, and I'll start on that site.

Thanks for the reply.