My system is a MacBook Pro 2,2 with 2.33 GHz Core 2 Duo. I plan to upgrade soon and will report if bluetooth still works afterwards. Hopefully this provides some details and hope to anyone aiming to use Bluetooth purely in Bootcamp w/ Lion. I successfully ran the Windows mObridge Config Update Wizard and configured my car's ABT2010-MBZ-F bluetooth hands free device (a great product by the way) wirelessly via bluetooth. In the case of using a virtual machine on the Mac, when WinXP is running the Bluetooth status icon in Finder's menu bar changes appearance clicking on it displays "Bluetooth: Not Available" while WinXP is running. Not sure if it was that action or just latency with the Win installer but at that point Window started through the usual "Found new hardware." process with balloons in its System Tray reporting progress (unattended) until it finally reported "Your new hardware is installed but there were problems." However, a second later within the Device Manager window I had open it did more shuffling and before my eyes the broken new components in Device Manager moved to become a new category off the trunk named Bluetooth Radios, with children "Apple Buit-in Bluetooth" and "Microsoft Bluethooth Enumerator." No broken devices, after which Bluetooth works flawlessly in WinXP. Immediately thereafter in Parallels' menu I selected Devices->USB->Apple Bluetooth USB Host Controller. Bootcamp users might be done at this point. Briefly at this point in Windows Device Manager a few new broken/unknown devices appear but it resolves itself as Windows finishes detecting and configuring things. Start WinXP, run AppleBluetoothInstaller.exe, then AppleBluetoothEnablerInstaller.exe they both reported success at the end of their quick installation. Navigate to /Boot Camp/Drivers/Apple copy "AppleBluetoothInstaller.exe" and "AppleBluetoothEnablerInstaller.exe" to a location that Windows can access. ![]() Steps: Inserting the SL DVD mounts "Mac OS X Install DVD" along with a "Windows Support" volume. Admittedly this is not a Bootcamp solution but is proves the older drivers on the DVD work fine with SL 10.6.8. Short of a full blown Boot camp installation, I used my Snow Leopard (SL) DVD without updates and got Bluetooth working in WinXP using the Bootcamp drivers under Parallels since Bootcamp Ass't (luckily) reported I had insufficient space for another partition. Success story & closure to my earlier post.
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