So, some time ago, I got myself an internal card reader with an integrated Bluetooth dongle. The BT part worked well enough, however my Wiimote - the one main thing I want to use the dongle with - kept getting "semi-disconnected": Whatever program has been communicating with the Wiimote was still able to see button presses, but ex. the accelerometer or rumble motors would not work, and the Wiimote was not being detected as connected, anymore.

Having read about that Toshiba Bluetooth stack as a recommendation ex. for the Wiimote, I looked for and went to install that one yesterday - and it made the Wiimote work continuously, no more disconnects and such. However, after getting back to it today or so, for whatever reason my dongle wasn't being detected anymore, let alone the Wiimote or my cellphone.

I ended up uninstalling the Toshiba stack, restarted the system, still no dongle detected. I got an earlier version of the Toshiba stack, installed that, restarted, nothing. Removed it again, restarted, nothing. Let Windows do its hardware detection, no new devices found, nothing Bluetooth-ish in the Device Manager. The Bluetooth devices option in the Control Panel is there but doesn't list any dongles, etc. under Hardware, of course doesn't detect BT devices, and doesn't even want to save changes to the connection or search settings. Google didn't help either, as most sites I found talked about not being able to detect BT devices as opposed to dongles, and those few things I could find (ex. removing/renaming the bt*.inf files in %Windir%\inf\) didn't do anything.

Well, something like 8 restarts later, I still have no idea what has happended in the first place, and I am out of ideas on how to try and fix this.


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