Configuring the Broadcom 2045A Bluetooth Dongle in Windows

I stole this from harshj.com because it was the first article that popped up in my google search on how to configure my bluetooth dongle.

If your bluetooth dongle shows up as a BCM2045A under Other Devices in Device Manager, there’s an easier way to configure it without having to install its bulky driver from the CD you got. And if you didn’t receive a CD with your BCM2045A Bluetooth Dongle, this guide is definitely for you.

Tested on: Windows XP Professional and Windows Vista Ultimate.

First, connect the device to the computer via USB as usual. Now Windows will tell you installing the new hardware has failed and so on, not even Windows Update can resolve it. This is typical of Windows as it doesn’t have the required drivers for this particular Broadcom BCM2045A Device.

Now right-click on My Computer and hit Manage. From the window that pops out, click Device Manager on the left side-pane. You must see the ‘BCM2045A’ written in it under the section ‘Other Devices’. Right click that and hit Properties now. Go to the details tab and from the drop down menu that appears, select Hardware ID. You should see two lines that look like below:

USBVID_0A5C&PID_2045&REV_0112
USBVID_0A5C&PID_2045

Right click the second one (Without the REV* thing) and select Copy.

Now head to My Computer and under the Windows directory, enter the directory named INF (or inf) and locate the bth.ini file in it. Open the bth.ini file with your favorite text editor (I prefer the vanilla Notepad), and find the line called “Device Section Start” in it.

Now locate the name ‘Broadcom‘ and under it, you’ll see a device of BCM2033 or so with a different Hardware ID. Just replace the 2033 with a 2045A and the 2033 in the Hardware ID line (Something like “Transceiver= BthUsb, USBVID_0A5C&PID_2033“) with 2045 in place of 2033. Else, just erase the USB/VID line and paste the one you had earlier copied into the clipboard.

Save the file and quit.

Now replug the device and go to Device Manager again via My Computer - Manage. Find the BCM2045A again and right click and choose Update Driver. When Windows offers to search for drivers for the 2045A ask it to show you a list of known hardware to choose manually. Now look for Bluetooth Radio devices and under that look for Broadcom.

Under Broadcom, choose the one that has 2045A (i.e, the one we edited. It may still show up as 2033, but still, select it!) And hit next. The devices will now be found, installed and configured. Thus, you dont need to install the crappy drivers from the CD unless you’re in love with it…

Happy hacking.

Dreamhack!

I am just gonna post an official blog from dreamhack. There is nothing more I would want, but to be there with a bunch of friends! I heard the food service there is exceptional and its 24/7. Here is the official website.

The internet of the future at DreamHack – the world’s largest computer festival

A bandwidth of 40 gigabit per second and a capacity of 92 terabit per second. That is the bandwidth that Telia and Cisco, for the first time in the Nordics, will supply the world’s largest computer festival DreamHack and its participants with.– DreamHack is nowadays also what we call DreamLab, a digital platform where tomorrow's technology and our participants meet. The people that attend DreamHack are very informed and are also critical users, says David Garpenståhl, DreamHack’s chairman.The broadband experience delivered at DreamHack Winter 2007 will be without comparison. The participants will be the first in the Nordic region to use a new technology that manages a bandwidth of 40 gigabit per second. Telia supplies the high tech fibre optical network that delivers the staggering bandwidth and Cisco provides the world's fastest internet router, the Cisco CRS-1, which can handle 92 terabit per second. That is a thousand times more data than the capacity of the largest internet hub in Sweden. An internet hub is the physical connection between different internet operators.– DreamHack is connected to the world's fastest router, the Cisco CRS-1. Fully configured, the router has the capacity to let one billion persons play online games through it simultaneously. The router is a proof of that the future of internet already has arrived and that Cisco is the global leader in this segment, says Sverker Hannervall, CEO at Cisco Sweden.The explosive traffic growth on the internet requires that the bandwidth capacity of the physical nets grows proportionally. Telia and Cisco can offer products and solutions to fill the demand of faster internet.– Games, moving images and streaming media is what drives the development today, says Erik Hallberg, manager of broadband services at Telia Sweden. A bandwidth of 40 gigabit per second enables 10 000 simultaneous TV-channels or video-on-demand movies at the same time. This will take internet to the next level. The capacity of the Cisco CRS-1 enables:• All the people on the planet to make VoIP calls at the same time• One billion people to play online games with real time voice and text chat simultaneously• 15 million people to watch streaming HD video simultaneously.

For more information about the Cisco CRS-1, please visit: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps5763/index.html

The total value of the equipment provided by Cisco and Telia is SEK 45 million. Cisco contributes equipment for 40 million, while Telia contribute with equipment for SEK 5 million.

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