Bluetooth Headset Hardware not supported

I have a Kensington USB dongle and I pasted the ASP info below. I can use it for pretty much everything except for using my headset. Does any one know of a way to enable this?
I can't imagine why Apple would only support headsets on their bluetooth hardware. I read in this forum that a D-link dongle is supported, does it have any specific features that my Kensington dongle does not list in the Apple system profiler?





Apple Bluetooth Software Version: 1.7.8f2
Hardware Settings:
tower:
Address: 00-0c-55-f8-47-c6
Manufacturer: Broadcom
Firmware Version: 2.0 (2.26981)
Bluetooth Power: On
Discoverable: Yes
HCI Version: 2 ($2)
HCI Revision: 0 ($0)
LMP Version: 2 ($2)
LMP Subversion: 26981 ($6965)
Device Type (Major): Computer
Device Type (Complete): Desktop Computer
Composite Class Of Device: 1057028 ($102104)
Device Class (Major): 1 ($1)
Device Class (Minor): 1 ($1)
Service Class: 129 ($81)
Requires Authentication: No
Services:
Bluetooth File Transfer:
Folder other devices can browse: ~/Public
Requires Authentication: No
State: Enabled
Bluetooth File Exchange:
Folder for accepted items: ~/Documents
Requires Authentication: Yes
When other items are accepted: Ask
When PIM items are accepted: Ask
When receiving items: Prompt for each file
State: Enabled
Devices (Paired, Favorites, etc):
:
Name:
Address: 00-15-b9-8b-d6-57
Type: Cellular Phone
Services: HFP Gateway, Dialup Networking, Object Exchange, File Transfer, WBTEXT, HSP Gateway
Paired: Yes
Favorite: Yes
Connected: No
Incoming Serial Ports:
Serial Port 1:
Name: Bluetooth-PDA-Sync
RFCOMM Channel: 3
Requires Authentication: Yes
Serial Port 2:
Name: SerialPort-1
RFCOMM Channel: 1
Requires Authentication: Yes
Outgoing Serial Ports:
Serial Port 1:
Address: 00-15-B9-8B-D6-57
Name: Bluetooth-Modem
RFCOMM Channel: 4
Requires Authentication: No
Serial Port 2:
Address: 00-15-B9-8B-D6-57
Name: SPH-A900-DialupNetworki-1
RFCOMM Channel: 4
Requires Authentication: No

QS dual 1.2, Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Nov 1, 2006 1:20 PM

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Nov 28, 2006 9:07 PM in response to Jason Yauman

Dlink is STILL 😟 the only officially supported usb BT dongle and I have one and it works great if you only want 10m radius.

I bought a Targus ACB20 (also known as ACB20us) because my GF wanted BT connectivity for her headset on her eMac. I realised AFTER that headsets were not supported for the Broadcom Chipset in this device.

I found the answer here -> http://cbri.umn.edu/~kunau/?p=18

this guy found a belkin patch for his device that allows broadcom chipset dongles to use headsets (YAY).

here is the direct dl link for the file -> http://ccgb.umn.edu/~kunau/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/BelkinF8T012v-OSXdriver.zip

This works fine with my targus dongle and another Anycom one I have (both 100m).

Hope this works for you.

Kez

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