Drivers for Ethernet Controller and Bluetooth

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Drivers for Ethernet Controller and Bluetooth

We bought an iMac so that my husband could have a Mac and still access to those things requiring Windows. We have been unable to get Windows to see the network or setup a wireless keyboard and mouse. After spending an hour with Apple and 1 1/2 hours with Microsoft, we were told that we need to get drivers for ethernet controller and Bluetooth. Could someone PLEASE tell us where to access these drivers and how to get them onto the PC side of our iMac. We have been dealing with this for several weeks and getting very frustrated.

TIA,
Sharon

G4 Tower - 933 and MacBook 2.2 GHz, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on May 15, 2008 7:09 AM

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Answer 1

May 15, 2008 8:18 AM in response to Sharon Swensen

Sorry, I should have told you he installed XP/SP2 32 bit Home edition. We "installed" drivers from the Leopard disk multiple times to no avail. 😟

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Answer 2

May 15, 2008 10:22 PM in response to Sharon Swensen

Did you run the full Bootcamp setup program from the DVD while in XP, or did you dig down into the drivers folder and manually install specific drivers?

You might check the device manager in XP and see if there are exclamation points next to the ethernet driver (and others).

Double click on the ones with exclamation points and click the install button (not sure what tab it is on). If you are lucky, the drivers were installed, but just not activated.

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Answer 3

May 17, 2008 10:59 AM in response to Moonlight Mac

After another session with an Apple tech, we decided to start all over. So my husband repartitioned the drive, reinstalled XP and all of the yellow exclamation marks in Device Manager are gone! We have a network connection and the Bluetooth devices are working. If only we had realized how simple the fix would be!

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