Installing the S60 Bluetooth Driver

The Bluetooth driver is delivered with S60 5th Edition SDK and is located in <S60_SDK_installation_directory>\S60tools\S60Bt.

The driver is also available as an independent delivery.

Prerequisites

  • Windows XP

  • S60 5th Edition SDK installed to your PC (please refer to the Installation Guide of the SDK for detailed installation requirements: <S60_SDK_installation_directory>\docs\)

Installation Steps

  1. Open the Windows Device Manager.

  2. In the Device Manager, locate the Bluetooth device to be used as the S60 Bluetooth device.

    Figure 75: Bluetooth device in Device Manager

  3. Click the right mouse button and select Update Driver… in the popup-menu.

    Figure 76: Update Driver… option in pop-up menu

  4. Select No, not this time, if the Hardware Update Wizard displays the following dialog, and click Next >:

    Figure 77: Hardware Update Wizard

  5. Select Install from a list or specific location and click Next >:

    Figure 78: Install from a list or specific location (Advanced)

  6. Select Don’t search. I will choose the driver to install. and click Next >.

    Figure 79: Don’t search. I will choose the driver to install.

  7. Select the device driver and click the Have Disk… button.

    Figure 80: Select the device driver you want to install for this hardware

  8. In the Locate File dialog, browse to s60bt.inf file and click Next >.

    If you have installed the S60 SDK 5th Edition SDK, s60bt.inf is located in <S60_SDK_installation_directory>\S60Tools\S60Bt. Otherwise browse to the location to which you have extracted the driver files.

  9. When a Hardware Installation warning appears, click Continue Anyway.

    Figure 81: Hardware Installation warning

  10. Once the installation has been completed, click Finish.

    Figure 82: Installation completed

The Device Manager should now display Bluetooth for S60 SDK in the list of USB controllers:

Figure 83: Bluetooth for S60 SDK USB controller in Device Manager

Configuring the emulator in S60 5th Edition SDK

  1. Perform steps 1-10 described in Installation Steps above.

  2. Start the SDK emulator.

  3. In the emulator, go to Tools Menu > Preferences > PAN (Personal Area Network).

  4. In the PAN (Personal Area Network) tab,

    • enable Bluetooth

    • select USB in the HCI drop-down menu

    • click Apply.

    Figure 84: USB selected in PAN (Personal Area Network) tab

  5. Restart the emulator.

Bluetooth should now be operational in your emulator.