Pretec BT2000-CF User manual

Pretec Bluetooth CompactFlash Card
BT2000-CF
User Manual for Win2000
June 20, 2002

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1. Introduction
This user’s manual covers the product features, release notes, installation procedures, and
operating procedures for Pretec’s Bluetooth applications.
Bluetooth wireless technology is a global standard for low-cost and low-power small form factors
to connect multiple devices such as computers, mobile phones, PDAs, printers, LAN and WANs to
each other. It provides fast and reliable digital transmission of both voice and data over 2.4GHz
ISM open band. Pretec’s Bluetooth wireless technology offers the following features:
•Cable Replacement
Establishes a wireless Personal Area Network with other Bluetooth devices within the
operating range, without the hassles of wiring and configuration.
•Ad-hoc Networking
Supports both data and voice between two or more devices wirelessly.
•Secure Wireless Connections
Built-in authentication, encryption and authorization applications ensure secure
information access and transmission.
•LAN and WAN Access Points
LAN and WAN access such as Web, email, E-commerce, and VPN.
2. Product Features
With Pretec’s Bluetooth CompactFlash Card with PCMCIA adapter and Bluetooth software, you
can establish wireless connections between your computer and other Bluetooth wireless devices.
The features include:
•Device Discovery
•Name Discovery
•Service Discovery
•File Transfer
•Object Push for files, objects and business cards
•Blue Chat that allows users to instantly send and receive text messages
•Internet Access through Dial-Up Networking
•Connection to LAN through LAN Access Point
Pretec provides Bluetooth Neighborhood software application that integrates all of the above
features into one single application.
3. Release Notes
•We support Windows 2000 on this release
•This release supports the Pretec Bluetooth CompactFlash Card.
•SIG 1.1 compliant Bluetooth protocol stack.
•We support the Device Discovery, Name Discovery, Service Discovery, Paring,
Objpush, File Transfer, Dial Up and LAN access Networking in this release.

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•Audio is not supported in this release.
•When two devices are performing Device Discovery at the same time, they will not
discover each other. Please do not run Bluetooth Neighborhood at the same time.
4. Installation Procedures for Windows 2000
1. Insert the Pretec Bluetooth Installation CD into your laptop CD-ROM drive.
2. Run Pretec Bluetooth Setup.exe and follow the on-screen instruction to install the application
program.
3. Simply follow the on-screen instructions.
4. After you finished the installation, in the “Device Manager”, you will see the following window.
In this window, you can see the “Pretec Bluetooth COM Bridge” has a question mark. This is OK
because it is a special device and was designed to appear as such.
5. After you have restarted your laptop, please connect your Pretec Bluetooth CompactFlash
Card to your laptop. The system will automatically install the driver for you. After the system
installed the driver you need reboot your system. Now you are ready to execute Object Push,
File Transfer and Blue Chat by using Bluetooth Neighborhood. Please see the section “How to
Run Bluetooth Neighborhood” and skip the following steps. If you want to use the Dial-up
Networking and LAN Access, please observe the following steps.

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Installation Procedures for Dial-up Networking
If you have Bluetooth phone/modem, then you should continue to install the corresponding
components.
1. Go to the “Control Panel”, Click the “Phone and Modem Options” to add a new mode for the
Bluetooth Dial-Up Networking.
2. Click “Add”, you will see the “Add/Remove Hardware Wizard”, Check the checkbox “Don’t
detect my modem I will select it from a list.”, then click “Next”.

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3. After you click “Next”, the System will pop a window like below. You chose the “Standard
56000bps V90 Modem” as the Bluetooth modem. Click “Next” to continue.

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4. After you click “Next”, the system will pop up the window to ask you which COM Port you will
use. Before selecting, you should go to Device Manager to find out which COM port
associating with “Bluetooth COM Port - DUN”.
Refer to the above window to select the correct COM Port for your Bluetooth DUN modem.

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5. Click “Next” to finish the modem installation. After you installed the Bluetooth Modem
“Standard 56000bps V90 Modem”, you can treat it as a normal modem. Now, you are ready to
create a Dial-up networking connection through the Bluetooth Phone/Modem.
Installation Procedures for LAN Access
1. For the LAN Access, the installation procedure for modem is almost the same as Dial-up
networking. The only difference is under installing new modem, you should choose the
“Communications Cable between two computers ".

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2. Click “Next” to continue the installation.
3. After you click “Next”, the system will pop up the window to ask you which COM Port you will
use. Before selecting, you should go to Device Manager to find out which COM port
associating with “Bluetooth COM Port - LAN”.

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Refer to the above window to select the correct COM Port for your Bluetooth LAN modem.
4. After you install the “Communication cable between two computers”, you are ready to
create a new network connection through LAN Access Point.

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5. How to Run Bluetooth Neighborhood
1. You can find a shortcut on the Desktop - Bluetooth Neighborhood.
2. Please go to the Windows Explorer, you will find an icon Called "Bluetooth Neighborhood".
Double-click it, Bluetooth Neighborhood will start to run. You can see a Bluetooth
Neighborhood GUI at the right-hand side of Windows Explorer, and the window "Device
Discovery" pops up. When it finds all the Bluetooth devices within the range, the "Device
Discovery" windows will disappear. The discovery process includes device discovery and
name discovery.
This menu will give you
some action option about
bluetooth, like “service
discovery”,”device
discovery”,
“BlueChat”………