enabling bluetooth on a powerbook G4 titanium 400MHz 10.2.8

My <enter> key (line return) no longer works and so I have opted for using a bluetooth wireless apple keyboard. In order to use this I have bought a dongle (USB Adapter ES-388 V2.0/V1.2 compliant UHCI spec 2.0 compliant) but although this appears on the system profiler at the USB bus (Bluetooth HCI) when I try to set up new device on system preferences, I get the message "You must have a bluetooth module, please verify that your bluetooth device is properly attached to the computer". The blue led on the dongle is lit up so I have no idea what else can be done.

All advice is appreciated - even a tip as to how to repair the one <enter> key on the keyboard.

Powerbook G4 + Macbook Duo core, Mac OS X (10.5.8), Of course I have an XP Professional as reserve.....!

Posted on Sep 4, 2009 5:37 AM

17 replies

Sep 4, 2009 6:54 PM in response to kmac1036

That is cool. Your advice is appreciated, now at least I know which direction I have to head.
I hope to be able to say soon that I have a working dongle!

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Sep 8, 2009 6:18 PM in response to Kenneth Keen1

It may or may not still be pertinent, but the ONLY BlueTooth adapter that Apple ever supported for Powerbooks without built-in BT was the D-Link DBT-120. I have one that works just fine on my Tibook.

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