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Pretec BT2000-CF User Manual

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Pretec Bluetooth CompactFlash Card
BT2000-CF
User Manual for Win2000
June 20, 2002
1. Introduction
This user’s manual covers the product feat ur es, release notes, installation procedures, and operating procedures for Pretec’s Bluetooth applications.
Bluetooth wireless technology is a global standard for low-cost and low-power small for m factors to connect multiple devices such as computers, mobile phones, PDAs, printers, LAN and WANs to each other. It provides fast and r eliable digital transmission of both voice and data over 2.4GHz ISM open band. Pretec’s Bluetooth wireless technology offer s the following features:
• Cable Replacement
Establishes a wireless Personal Area Network with other Bluetooth devices within the operating range, without the hassles of wiring and configuration.
• Ad-hoc Networking
Supports both data and voice between two or more devices wirelessly.
• Secure Wireless Connections
Built-in authentication, encryption and authorization applicat ions ensur e secur e information access and transmission.
• LAN and WAN Access Points
LAN and WAN access such as Web, email, E-com m er c e, and VPN.
2. Product Features
With Pret ec’s Bluetooth CompactFlash Card with PCMCIA adapter and Bluetooth software, you can establish wireless connections between your computer and other Bluetooth wireless devices. The features include:
• Device Discovery
• Name Discovery
• Service Discovery
• File Transfer
• Object Push for files, objects and business cards
• Blue Chat that allows users to instantly send and receive text messages
• Internet Access through Dial-Up Networking
• Connection to LAN through LAN Access Point
Pretec provides Bluetooth Neighborhood software application that integrates all of the above features into one single application.
3. Release Notes
• We support Windows 2000 on this release
• This release supports the Pretec Bluetooth CompactFlash Card.
• SIG 1.1 compliant Bluetooth protocol stack.
• We support the Device Discovery, Name Discovery, Service Discovery, Paring,
Objpush, File Transfer , Dial Up and LAN access Networking in this release.
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• Audio is not supported in this release.
• When two devices are performing Device Discovery at the same time, they will not
discover each other. Please do not run Bluetooth Neighborhood at the same time.
4. Installation Procedures for Window s 2000
1. Insert the Pretec Bluetooth Installation CD into your laptop CD-ROM drive.
2. Run Pretec Bluetooth Setup.exe and follow the on-scr een instruction to install the application program.
3. Simply follow the on-screen instructions.
4. After you finished the installation, in the “Device Manager”, you will see the following window.
In this window, you can see the “Pretec Bluetooth COM Bridge” has a quest ion m ar k. This is OK because it is a special device and was designed to appear as such.
5. After you have restarted your laptop, please connect your Pretec Bl uetooth CompactFlash Card to your laptop. T he system will automatically install the driver for you. After the system installed the driver you need reboot your system. Now you are ready to execute Object Push, File Transfer and Blue Chat by using Bluetooth Neighborhood. Please see the section “How to Run Bluetooth Neighborhood” and sk ip the following steps. If you want to use the Dial-up Networking and LAN Access, please observe the following steps.
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Installation Procedures for Di al -up Networking
If you have Bluetooth phone/modem, then you should continue to inst all the corresponding components.
1. Go to the “Control Panel”, Click the “Phone and Modem Options” to add a new mode Bluetooth Dial-Up Networking.
2. Click “Add”, you will see the “Add/Remove Hardware Wizard”, Check the checkbox “Don’t detect my modem I will select it from a list.”, then click “Next”.
for the
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3. After you click “Next”, the System will pop a window like below. You chose the “Standard 56000bps V90 Modem” as the Bluetooth modem. Click “Next” to continue.
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4. After you click “Next”, the system will pop up the window to ask you which COM Port you will use. Before selecting, you should go to Device Manager to find out which COM port associating with “Bluetooth COM Port - DUN”.
Refer to the above window to select the correct COM Port f or your Bluetooth DUN modem.
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5. Click “Next” to finish the modem installation. After you installed the Bluetooth Modem “Standard 56000bps V90 Modem”, you can treat it as a normal modem . Now, you are ready to create a Dial-up networking connection through the Bluetooth Phone/Modem.
Installation Procedures for LAN Access
1. For the LAN Access, the installation procedure for modem is almost the same as Dial-up networking. The only difference is under installing new modem, you should choose the “Communications Cable betw een t wo computers ".
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2. Click “Next” to continue the installation.
3. After you click “Next”, the system will pop up the window to ask you which COM Port you will use. Before selecting, you should go to Device Manager to find out which COM port associating with “Bluetooth COM Port - LAN”.
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Refer to the above window to select the correct COM Port f or your Bluet oot h LAN modem.
4. After you install the “Communicati on cabl e bet ween two comput ers” , you are r eady to create a new network connection through LAN Access Point.
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5. How to Run Bluetooth Neighborhood
1. You can find a shortcut on the Deskt op - Bluetooth Neighborhood.
2. Please go to the Windows Explorer, you will find an icon Called "Bluetooth Neighborhood".
Double-click it, Bluetooth Neighborhood will start to run. You can see a Bluetooth Neighborhood GUI at the right-hand side of Windows Explorer, and the window "Device Discovery" pops up. When it f inds all the Bluetooth devices within the range, the "Device Discovery" windows will disappear. The discovery process includes device discovery and name discovery.
This menu will give you some action option about bluetooth, like “service discovery”,”device discovery”, “BlueChat”………
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3. After finding the devices, you can click one of the devices and show what services that
device can provide. In the Device List Window (at the right-hand side of Windows Explorer), the first device is always the local device.
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Security Mode
1. Our sof tware provides two levels of security mode: security level 1 and security level 3. At
security level 3, a PIN code will be required when other Bluetooth enabled devices try to connect with you. The PIN code entered needs to be the exact same one entered on both machines. This will give you more security. If you set your PC in securit y level 1, then t her e is no PIN code needed.
2. You can go to the Bluetooth Neighborhood to set the security level. Choose the Local
Device, click the right button of your mouse, and then choose the Property. You will see the window like below.
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Access Mode
1. Our software provides three options of access mode: discoverable&connectable, non-
discoverable&connectable and non-discoverable&non-connectable. At the discoverable& connectable mode, you will allow the other bluetooth enabled devices to find and connect to you. At other two options, you will allow them to find you, but cannot connect to you. Or they can not find you and also connect to you.
2. You can go to the Bluetooth Neighborhood to set the Access mode. Choose the Local
Device, click the right button of your mouse, and then choose the Property. You will see the window like below.
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Exchange vCards
1. When you perf or m the Exchange vCard, you need go to the local device ‘s property to set
up “My Business Card” path first, like the following window. The default path is “C:\BTInbox”.
2. Then you click the device that you want to exchange vCard with. You will see the following
window appears. Click the “Exchange vCards”, then you will send your business card to this device, also you will get his business card to your device.
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Object Push
1. Before you perform Object push, Please set up your inbox path first. This directory will
save files that you receive. The default path is “C:\BTInbox”.
2. When you perform Object Push, sim ply Drag the f ile that you want to send, and Drop it to
the Bluetooth Device that you want to receive on the left hand side in Windows Explore. You also can use the Copy and Paste to do the object transfer between two Bluetooth devices. When you perfor m object push, the dialog box will show you the status.
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File Transfer
1. To execute File Transfer, open Windows Explorer, select “Bluetooth” on the menu bar and
click on “File Transfer Client ” or “File Transfer Server” to have File transfer working on both ends, the application on the remote computer also needs to run File transf er at the same time.
Click it to run File Transfer Client or Server
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2. The f ollowing window shows the File Transfer Server. In the File Transfer Server, you can
select the directory or file on the lef t-hand side of the window, and share it by using the Arrow key to transf er it to the right side of window. The direct ory or files in the right-hand side of the window are those that have been shared for the File Tr ansfer Client to use.
3. After you share the directory and f iles, you can select t hem and click the “Properties”
button to configure t hose dir ect ory or files.
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In this window, you can define the attribute of the dir ect or y or file that you shared, give the permission for the “File Tr ansfer Client “ to use.
4. When you click the “File Transfer Client” m enu t o r un it , the system will pop up a “Select
Device to Connect” window for you to choose which device you want to connect.
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5. After you select the remote device which running the File Transfer Server, the following
window will appear. You will see the directory and file shared by the File Transfer Server. You can get file or director y from the File Transfer ser ver or put file or directory to the File Transfer Server. Also you can create new folder in the Shared Directory from File Transfer Server.
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Blue Chat
1. For Blue Chat, click “Blue Chat” on Bluetooth Menu on Windows Explorer Menu bar. To have Blue Chat working on both ends, the application on rem ote computer also needs to run at the same time.
Click it to run Blue Chat
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2. After you click “Blue Chat”, the f o llowing window will appear.
3. In the above window, two options are shown. You can choose either you want to connect to someone or waiting for connection. If you want other people to communicate with you, just check the lower checkbox, then click “OK” and the following window will appear.
4. If you want to connect to a remote device, check t he upper checkbox. Click “OK”, the following window will appear.
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5. Then you click “Connect”, the system will pop up a window and you can select which device you want to connect.
6. Chose a Bluetooth Device you want to connect, and then click “OK”. The two Bluetooth devices now can connect to each other. You can type any text messages within Local Computer window and you can see the messages from Remote Computer t oo.
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Dial-Up Networ ki ng
1. For the Dial-Up Networking, please go to the “Control Panel” and find the “Network and Dial-up Connections” to create a new connection. When you create the connection for the Dial-Up networking, please use the “Standard 56000bps V90 Modem” t hat you installed before. If you haven’t installed that modem, please ref er t o the Installation section.
2. After you created a new connection, you should run Pretec Bluetooth Neighborhood application first. It will f ind the Bluetooth devices within the range. If you find devices such as Bluetooth phone/modem or Dial-Up Networking Access point , you can start the connection you just created, the system will show the following window.
3. Click “Dial”, a window will appear for you to select which Bluetooth Access Point or Bluetooth Cellular Phone to connect. Then click OK to make an Internet connection to ISP.
Notes:
For some Bluetooth enabled devices like Cell Phone, bef ore you do the Dial-up, you need to do the
“Trust Device” first. The following window shows you how to do it. For the Phone
configuration, you need set it t o t he “ Ready to pair “ m ode. You can refer the phone manual.
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LAN Access
For LAN Access, the setup is almost identical to the Dial-Up Networking. You need to create a “Communications cable betw een two computers ” modem in your system. For det ails on how to install this modem, please refer to the Installation Section. When you have the Communications cable between two computers modem set up, please go to the “Network Connections” to create a new connection. It is not necessary to provide the phone number, user name and password to make the connection.
1. Go to Control Panel -> Net work and Dial-up Connections, click “ Make new Connection”, a
“New Connection Wizard” window will appear. Click Next, You will see the following window.
2. Select the “Connect directly to another computer” option and click Next to continue the
installation.
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3. Select “Guest” option and click Next to continue.
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4. Choose the “Communications cable between two computers” modem that you installed before. If you haven’t installed that modem , please ref er to t he Installation section. Then f ollow the screen instruction to complete the inst allat ion.
5. After you create a new connection, you should run Pret ec Bluetooth Neig hborhood application first. It will find the Bluetooth devices within the range. If you find a device such as the Bluetooth LAN Access point, you can start the connection you just creat ed and the system will show a window to let you select the devices you want to connect. Then click OK to make an Internet connection.
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6. Uninstall Pretec Bluetooth Neighborhood
Please click the “Start”, go to the “Programs”, find the ”Pretec Bluetooth Neighbor hood” , and select the “Uninstall Bluetooth Neighborhood” . Follow the screen inst ructions, finish the uninstallation.
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