jmadden85 Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 Hello insanelymac, I recently built my first hackintosh. Gigabyte GA-H55-USB3 LGA 1156 rev 2.0 Intel Core i5-760 Lynnfield 2.8GHz Palit NEAT2400FHD01 GeForce GT 240 1GB 128-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0x16 I've got it running almost perfectly and I recently ordered a Asus USB-BT211 USB 2.0 Mini Bluetooth Dongle to use with my magic mouse and apple keyboard. According to osx86 and others this is supposed to work out of box, but it has not for me. My bluetooth icon doesn't even show up on the menu bar, and when I go into system preferences I can't even see bluetooth. I search for bluetooth using spotlight but when I clicked on it, it says that it's not available at this time. Any assistance here would be great, thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musashiz Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 i had the same issue in leopard (10.5). everyone said it worked OOB but it was a no go for me. my bluetooth only works in tiger (10.4). maybe try installing the tiger kexts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dellmantt Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 The BT21 works out of the box not the BT211 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LouCioccio Posted April 12, 2012 Share Posted April 12, 2012 Don't know if this will help. I too had trouble with the Asus BT211 which would not work in 10.6 nor recognize in parallels WinXP this was in a hack and also in a real mac. I did get another one that worked but never bothered to return the Asus BT211. I tried it 10.7 and no joy figuring I will away. Yesterday I went to Asus and they had updated their utility but it really did not say what it did to it. I downloaded it on the parallels side WinXP and installed this time it recognized it and it worked both on XP and 10.7. I even rebooted and it still works. Now I will try it on my hack. Ciao, Lou Cioccio Apple Bluetooth Software Version: 4.0.3f12 Hardware Settings: Address: 00-02-72-B1-56-A6 Manufacturer: Unknown Name: Lou Cioccio’s Mac Pro Firmware Version: 5.39321 (5.39321) Bluetooth Power: On Discoverable: Yes Vendor ID: 0 Product ID: 0x7fff HCI Version: 5 (0x5) HCI Revision: 39321 (0x9999) LMP Version: 5 (0x5) LMP Subversion: 39321 (0x9999) Device Type (Major): Computer Device Type (Complete): Mac Desktop Composite Class Of Device: 3801348 (0x3a0104) Device Class (Major): 1 (0x1) Device Class (Minor): 1 (0x1) Service Class: 464 (0x1d0) Services: Bluetooth File Transfer: Folder other devices can browse: ~/Public Requires Authentication: Yes State: Enabled Bluetooth File Exchange: Folder for accepted items: ~/Downloads Requires Authentication: No 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): lcioccio’s trackpad: Address: d8-a2-5e-fa-6b-23 Type: Trackpad Firmware Version: 0x160 Services: Apple Wireless Trackpad Paired: Yes Favorite: No Connected: No Manufacturer: Apple (0x3, 0x31c) Vendor ID: 0x5ac Product ID: 0x30e Incoming Serial Ports: Bluetooth-PDA-Sync: RFCOMM Channel: 3 Requires Authentication: No Outgoing Serial Ports: Bluetooth-Modem: Address: RFCOMM Channel: 0 Requires Authentication: No Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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