by Miha Markič
22. September 2006 01:04
Perhaps it is just me but I keep bumping into problems with bluetooth stacks. Making Qtek2020 to work with a bluetooth headset was an adventure by itself.
But now I am facing another very annoying problem. I have a Logitech® Mobile Traveller Headset and a couple of friends with voice enabled MS Messenger (or some other IM software). So I bought a MSI BToes 2.0 bluetooth dongle for my desktop computer to enable chat via headset. This MSI dongle comes with BlueSoleil bluetooth stack (my first thought was: crap, why not Widcomm). So I installed this BT stack and amazingly everything worked smoothly. Even headset worked immediately. This was a warning that something bad will soon happen - I never saw bluetooth device working out of the box like that. And soon, I found out that I was right.
The crappy BlueSoleil BT stack started restarting my Windows. It happens in few minutes after login - Windows just go into restart for no reason. Go figure - why would BT stack reset my Windows? I would understand BSOD or something like that but not a restart. And it happens even when dongle is absent so it has to be a pure software issue.
I don't know if it is just me but I find bluetooth software of very low quality in general. I wonder if I'll be ever able to solve this latest issue.