OS X 10.4, A2DP and bluetooth headsets
Hi all,
I have recently acquired a Belkin F8T012xx1 Bluetooth dongle, since I was attracted by the advertised RX/TX range of the product, and since most of my experience over the last 15 years has been on Linux/BSD, had not realised that OS X had issues with Bluetooth and headsets.
Also, the product was emphatically (and, as it turns out, mistakenly) advertised as working with OS X 10.4 and headsets using native drivers.
However, to cut a long story short, the product does not do so. However, after much back-and-forth correspondence with Belkin, it seems that the dongle will work with Leopard.
However, since I already have self-built utilities coping with the more important new features of Leopard, I don't really want to go through the rigmarole of upgrading from Tiger to Leopard on this old iBook.
Does Apple have any intention of backporting A2DP from 10.5 to 10.4? And if so, when?
I have tried using the version at SkyHorse.org, but couldn't get it to work.
TIA
Mudge
I have recently acquired a Belkin F8T012xx1 Bluetooth dongle, since I was attracted by the advertised RX/TX range of the product, and since most of my experience over the last 15 years has been on Linux/BSD, had not realised that OS X had issues with Bluetooth and headsets.
Also, the product was emphatically (and, as it turns out, mistakenly) advertised as working with OS X 10.4 and headsets using native drivers.
However, to cut a long story short, the product does not do so. However, after much back-and-forth correspondence with Belkin, it seems that the dongle will work with Leopard.
However, since I already have self-built utilities coping with the more important new features of Leopard, I don't really want to go through the rigmarole of upgrading from Tiger to Leopard on this old iBook.
Does Apple have any intention of backporting A2DP from 10.5 to 10.4? And if so, when?
I have tried using the version at SkyHorse.org, but couldn't get it to work.
TIA
Mudge
