enabling bluetooth on a powerbook G4 titanium 400MHz 10.2.8

I quoted all the information about the dongle that I have. It seems from what you say that perhaps the 10.2.8 is the problem - not having the drivers....Maybe I can get a 10.3.9 if it will run on this old powerbook. Can I not just locate the drivers elsewhere and then install them?
I appreciate your help!

I am having difficulties in finding OS 10.3.7 or higher. Would it make sense to look for this in ebay? If someone no longer needs this then they would perhaps sell it cheap? Or do Apple provide this somewhere that I have not been able to find?


Still hopeful that I can get a new system to make the dongle work so that the keyboard becomes available. Speaking of which my other keyboards (piano) seem to have the same problem - no driver available for 10.5.8 (edirol PCR 50).

Thanks for your diligent help kmac. At $130 for a system which is years out of date I think anyone would be wasteful to spend his money here. It is after all just a faulty key which is the problem, doesn't Apple just do smart things like give these old disks away for free? I mean, I can sell old telephone books too but who is likely to want to buy them and what image does this give those of us who are now in the world of "capitalism dead, altruism taking over"?
Anyway, YOU are with the new movement giving me the most precious thing you own - your time, and so are not to blame for the marketing mistakes of anonymous headless multinationals. I still appreciate and thank you for that. I will check out your last suggestion now - ebay.

Very pertinant eww. How can you be so sure that this is the only one? Why would they only support that one and no others? This is like getting a flat tyre and then ending up slowly replacing the whole car! Apple are pretty advanced in marketing but to even be able to manage to pull in revenues for machines made nearly ten years ago is quite an achievement or from a customer point of view poor stewardship.

I have tried backing up my system after having lost it a month ago having replied on local "Apple Service" and since Time MAchine let me down I am manually copying files from one HD to anther and since this is laborious I am now going to UBUNTU since THA system is made by HONEST people who are not intent on screwing you....I have up on Apple and wish you poor people the best of luck until you change. I changed to Apple 10 years go from the evil microsoft con and now apple are clearly on the same route - I have collected enough evidence through lots of screen shots with dates clearly displayed - for anyone interested a full time job just documenting the type of devious methods they use to keep us from seeing where our files are. No more time to be wasted on failures! Best of luck working with systems built to be OBSOLESCENT.

I have not yet given up! Now I have bought myself a new keyboard for the Titanium but since I have also the bluetooth dongle it would be great to be able to use it to connect the great wireless keyboard. Hence I now have managed to install 10.4.3 and although the dongle is inserted into the USB socket and the LED lights up, I still get the message:

The bluetooth tab of Keyboard & Mouse preferences is hidden because you don't have a Bluetooth module installed or attached to your computer.


So although the Bluetooth device shows up in the System Profiler as "Bluetooth HCI" the necessary interface to install it has been hidden.

So my present question is:

"How do we expose the path along which I must travel if I am to achieve my goal?"



Your suggestions are greatly appreciated!

Well eww,

Nice of you to offer advice - its not the money, its the solution. What IS the solution? I go to the link you send and there are TWO bits on offer - a usb adapter PC/Mac and wireless bluetooth adapter (not for pc nor mac - just wireless).
Well the two plastic bits are 20 dollars each so it is still not clear which one you have.
It has to be black on white. No secret codes, no hidden paths, no registration - just take the money and let me get on with uncovering why it won't fit alongside the other smaller USB devices because of its large body or whatever they have sabotaged so that NOTHING moves forward without the two steps back rule. Michael Moore is right.