I can't get Windows XP to establish a dial up connection to my provider Orange through my Nokia E71. According to the description, you create a dial-up connection with username user and password pass , and the number to dial should be *99***1#.
I am getting "The modem does not respond" when trying to dial from the PC. It is correctly to set to COM8 - Nokia bluetooth modem.
I read another option is via Nokia PC Suite which created another network connection for me called Nokia E71 OTA but that fell with the same error message.
(I did get this to work back home on an IBM T42 laptop and a Nokia 6230i, an N73 and an E51, through the provider T-Mobile where you had to dial *99#. Here I got Orange, a Lenovo T500 and this E71 and it just won't do it.)
To me it seems like the laptop - with windows xp sp2 - is failing to communicate with the E71 in the first place, however file transfer and audio gateway and those type of things over bluetooth seem to work.
Are you sure I should use a Toshiba stack with a Lenovo (IBM) laptop?
Plus there is this weird thing about Lenovos having their own stack + the windows stack and having to disable one of them - can't remember which - for bluetooth to properly work..
I have a T41 and although it uses the IBM Widcomm stack ( perfect for the usual stuff ), it worked better using Toshiba's stack for Bluetooth modem services / PAN, AV Gateway and other services. Mine had SP3 though, and my mobile was a non-Nokia BTW on a Sunrise data plan.
Not much has changed. Installed the driver via right click, install, rebooted laptop.
All connections (orange, OTA, pc anywhere) gave the same error when trying to dial.
Then i went into device manager - where nothing seems to have been changed, either - and tried to manually Update Driver first for the Bluetooth device: this failed saying 'cannot complete hardware update',
then for the COM 8 which looked successful.
After another reboot, all drivers still show up as broadcom.. and all connections fail with the same error message.
What is strange is that usually when such a dial-up attempt happens, the resting phones display should light up at least, showing there is some activity going on (and then fail, as I had before). This phone just keeps on sleeping with a dark display.
Check if the communications are working by going to the Control Panel, open the Modem applet, select the Bluetooth Modem and click the Properties button.
Now change to the Diagnostics tab and click the Query Modem button.
You should see a response with model, versions and other information. If you have this working, the dial up should work fine. In this case your dial up configuration is incorrect, not the Bluetooth.
I got 2 BT modems, a plain BT modem (COM6) and the Nokia E71 (COM8). The latter one has the Nokia driver, the other the broadcom. Both fail the query modem command with the same error message, see pic.
Haha! I think I am making progress. If I open My Bluetooth places, and then right click the Nokia and select "Connect Dial-Up Networking",
I do get the Dial up properties to pop up, and this time, when I dial, I get as far as "Verifying username and password" and "registering your computer onthe network" which is very good.
As I mentioned before,I had 2 bluetooth modems in the Control Panel, Phone and Modem options:
- 1 called "Bluetooth modem", created by windows
- 1 called Nokia E71 OTA modem, created by Nokia PC Suite.
When I was doing the Pc Suite or the manual dial up connection, Windows was trying to use the latter modem, which was giving that modem hardware failure-failed to respond error message mentioned earlier.
But when I was doing the My BT places, right click, Use Dial-Up, it was trying to use the simple 'Bluetooth modem' with which I got as far as Registering your computer on the network.
Going into the modem properties of the OTA guy, I noticed that on the Advanced Tab PC Suite insterted an 'initialization string' that looks like this:
+CGDCONT=,,"internet"
for the modem.
I went to the Advanced Tab in Properties of the 'Bluetooth modem', and copied the same initialization string for this guy, and yay the next dial-up attempt was successful!
Now I have internet even if I move over to my new house today!