Re: [NTLK] Which Bluetooth Card?

Hi,

Very interesting and thanks to David for forwarding this info but this has just thickened the plot.

My Ambicom BT2000-CF with purple antenna which is WORKING with Blunt 0.77 DOES NOT have an A in it's IC id but DOES HAVE a B!

Does the IC ID appear on the rear label (as in the FCC ID?) I assume the latter is what David was referring to?

Could anyone who has a purple antenna Ambicom BT2000-CF please send me their serial number OFF LIST. I have had a number of responses so far and thanks to those who have sent theirs on.

A pattern is emerging but the sample size is too small to jump to any conclusions as yet.

regards
Andrew

On 5/09/2006, at 6:09 AM, newtontalk@newtontalk.net wrote:

From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Eckhart_K=F6ppen?= <eck1003@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: [NTLK] Which Bluetooth Card?
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 19:54:08 +0300

On 3. Sep 2006, at 10:07, David Nye wrote:

I quote an e-mail sent to me by Nate Goorde:

******
David - finally got it all to work. Came down to two things:
1. had to use version 0.7.6 of Blunt
2. I'm using one of the PICO cards.

I found somebody at ambicom who knew enough to say that not all of the
purple cards are the same, in other words, some will work and others
won't. he didn't know anything about serial numbers or any other ways
to tell if a particular card would work.
******

I just found this mail which confirms that as well:

"Eckhart,

It seems that there are a few differences of the Ambicom cards that
need some explanation to some of our fellow Newton Wireless Fans. I
hope this is helpful.

There are 3 models of BT2000CF

For those of you that have ordered a BT2000CF and received a model
with a black antenna, do not fret, it is actually the BT2000E and is
just Ambicom's way of consolidating three models. The the stock
number BT2000E is no longer available. There are actually 2 of the
blue antenna model. One chipset is incompatible with the Newton.
There is a Version A and Version B. Version A is the only model that
will work. You pretty much have to specify that you want that model
when you call Ambicom. the IC id on the back of the card will be a
number that has either an A or B in it. The one with the A is the one
you want. You may be asking "How can they consolidate three models
into one stock number?" Quite simply actually. The driver package
(windows) allows for the consolidation based on 3 different numbers.
Yes, they are different but windows drivers make them function the
same way. This model consolidation does not help us Newton users any
at all. If you acquired a BT2000CF but it is not recognized by
Blunt, go under prefs and select bt2000E and you should be fine.

I hope this helps some of you.

David Inabinette"

Eckhart

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