VIP Road Bhopal

Photograph taken from the boat club of the lights at the VIP Road, Bhopal. Camera used: Mobile phone camera (8 mega pixel).

Dial-Up Networking Airtel Mobile Office

I thought of putting the information below as probably it can save somebody's time.

The following configuration settings are working for me using bluetooth in Vista. I do not see any reason why they should be different for USB:

User Name:
Password:
Dial Number: *99***1#
Access Point Name (APN): airtelgprs.com

The last setting is not, "Mobile Office" which is what a casual look at the mobile phone settings may indicate.

In the past I have used Nokia PC suite and it had pre settings (the new version) using which it was easy to connect but I am rarely using it these days.

Vista Bluetooth

If you had the problem with Bluetooth peripheral device driver installation prompt while using Vista then my following experience could be useful to you.

I wanted to connect Nokia N73 to a Vista based PC. First I activated Bluetooth on the PC and then installed Nokia PC Suite (version 5.8). The device (that is N73) could be located by the PC but there was a persistent prompt about Bluetooth peripheral device driver installation. The system was laptop with built-in Bluetooth and PC Suite was installed so I wondered why should there be an additional driver requirement. I found out that others with more recent versions of PC Suite also experienced this problem.

When driver as prompted could not be installed, I went to Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Device Manager and deleted anything related to Bluetooth showing unsuccessful driver installation. These unsuccessful installations showed at different location from Bluetooth Radios location inside the Device Manager. After deleting them I explored at this separate entry titled Bluetooth Radios inside which there were two entries, one saying Generic Bluetooth Radio and the other saying Microsoft Bluetooth Enumerator. I disabled Microsoft Bluetooth Enumerator. Now, I uninstalled Nokia PC Suite and restarted the PC (the PC Suite uninstallation wants system restart).

After system restart, I again activated Bluetooth on the PC. Since, I had to install Nokia PC Suite again; I went for the recent version 7. After that there were no issues. This blog post is being typed while N73 is connected and I am able to access Internet at this moment via N73.