Comments on: Kensington Bluetooth USB Adapter Reviews

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:10:52 +0000

This is how I got it to work (thanks to the hints provided for Vista by UserNotFound).

Kensington 33348 – Win XP SP2

Plug in the device, cancel any driver installation.

Go to device manager, and click on properties for the “Unknown device > Bluetooth EDR dongle”. Click the details tab, and choose Device Instance ID for the option. The entry on mine contained VID_047D&PID_105E – write it down.

Open C:\windows\inf\bth.inf with notepad
(make a backup of this file first)
scroll down to below ;— Device section – Start —
find “Blutonium BCM2035″, it should be the 6th entry.

Replace the PID_xxxx with PID_105E, or whatever your hardware ID specified.

Replace:

[Broadcom.NT.5.1]
Blutonium BCM2035 Bluetooth 2.4 GHz Single Chip Transceiver= BthUsb, USB\VID_0A5C&PID_200A
|=== this ======|
With:
[Broadcom.NT.5.1]
Blutonium BCM2035 Bluetooth 2.4 GHz Single Chip Transceiver= BthUsb, USB\VID_047D&PID_105E
|=== this ======|
Save the file.

In device manager, right click the EDR dongle device, and choose update driver.

Choose the option to search for the driver yourself and dsiplay a list of all known drivers. Choose bluetooth radios, then Broadcaom and Blutonium BCM2035 for the device. It should install 3 or 4 devices, and you’re set to go.

By: Cory

Cory — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:43:14 +0000

My environment: HP laptop dv6000, Vista (64), Kensington bt dongle 2.0, and just installed Anycom-bluetooth-usb200-250-500-windows-v5-5-0-3900 application.

The anycom software worked like magic and I’m syncing with wmdc and my treo 700w with no problems. Notes for the setup: install anycom, look in your device settings for what serial port was setup for bluetooth, in wmdc select that same port for syncing. From your phone/pda select add bluetooth devices and find your computer and you should see activesync as a service; select it and finish the setup via the prompts. Go into activesync on your phone and initiate a sync. It worked on the first try and anycom has the drivers for both vista 32 and vista 64 for kensington.

By: joan

joan — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:18:01 +0000

Its flashing, but that is all! It worked , but not anymore! Its blue, so I believe its alive! I have spent hours trying to figure out the problem!
My laptop(Mac)is not communicating with my printer! What is going on!

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:53:52 +0000

OK say i have the kensington thing, and im trying to transfer stuff from my computer to my cell phone, douse anyone have anything that would help me do this? i really need help
email me if soo
jkig2k5@yahoo.com

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:13:42 +0000

I was stupid emough to buy a kensington 2.0 USB bluetooth dongle. After a year my dongle operates now (Vista); however not for the purpose I intended; synchronization between my pc and my pda. Active sync simply does not work. e-mails and calls to kensington helpdesk are simply ignored.
BUY A PRODUCT FROM A MANUFACTURER WHO GIVES PROPER SUPPORT: NO KENSINGTON PRODUCT

By: Robert Eisman

Robert Eisman — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:53:33 +0000

If anyone has a Kensington k33348 that they do not want, PSE do not throw it in the trash. Send it my way! I would buy one but I am a poor man. I would appreciate it!!
(Rob) contact me at: biglizard50@hotmail.com
Tnx!!

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:03:04 +0000

PROBLEM SOLVED! Apparently Kensington came up with a new and improved driver… here’s the link for it. it works (for now..) http://update.broadcom.com/downloads/btwinitialupdate.exe

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:34:08 +0000

Anyone successfully try this on ubuntu linux (7.10) i’ll check the forums.. I’m trying it on my home computer (has XP SP2) and its not going too well… i accidentally broke the CD when trying to open the case. woops. i tried for a little while on my laptop, but i decided it wasnt going to work on linux and tried it on XP…. wrong idea. also, the link to the MSI drivers just brings me to the MSI home page asking for the country, i searched around but couldnt find anything. if someone could post details on how to get the MSI stack, i’d be great.

By: Randy

Randy — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:25:41 +0000

I have had this dongle for a couple of years and used it on 98 and xp sp2 on a couple of different machines and it has always worked finr.
It is a little troublesum to install correctly.
If you have the cd, plug in your dongle and insert the cd and run. Windows will install the wrong drivers but once the installation is complete, and it is best to just let it run till all software is installed, then you should restart, go to device manager and just do and update for the driver. When it asks tell it no to search and automatic or what ever till you get to the “have disc” option. click that and get to where it asks for a location, click browse and go to the cd drive and click down till you see the driver that should be btwusb.sys and click that then run or install or what ever. This will install the proper driver and still have all the software and programs that came with the dongle.
Good luck.

By: TonyL

TonyL — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:31:31 +0000

I’m using it with my motorola s9 headphone right now. we’ll see if it will still work down the road. This is for Vista32bit user, but I think its same for other os: use the software from the broadcom.com link, plug in the adapter, click on ask me later when the message pop up, start the software(I think you have to be online to do it), and use 0000 when put in the passkey.