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Good news everyone!

An online friend actually had the drivers in his PC and so he uploaded them to my web space and so everyone can now download the drivers and have the Belkin F8T020 BT card *work* with PPC2003/SE. Remember, the following instructions are for PPC2003/SE only. For PPC2000/2002 the CD the F8T020 comes with includes native drivers.

1. Make sure that *no other* bluetooth drivers/managers are installed on your PDA. If you have installed other BT stuff there is a good chance that if you follow the following steps you will need to hard reset your PDA and lose your data (the two drivers collide and crash the PDA on boot, soft-reset doesn't fix it). So, before continue go to the 'add/remove programs' panel and make sure no other Bluetooth drivers or managers are installed.
2. Download and install this freeware registry editor program on your PPC:
[url]http://www2r.biglobe.ne.jp/~tascal/download/pocketpc/tre_e.htm[/url]
3. Download the following text file and IMPORT it to your Registry using the above pogram:
[url]http://www.eugenia.co.uk/belkin/Bluetooth.txt[/url]
4. Download these drivers:
[url]http://www.eugenia.co.uk/belkin/TECH0850_Pocket_2000_2002.zip[/url] (5 MB)
5. Place the Bluetooth card on your PDA, connect to the ActiveSync and THEN install the drivers.
6. After the drivers have been installed, soft-reset the PDA.

Voila, you have Bluetooth, with a working Bluetooth Manager, via the Belkin F8T020 CF card on PPC2000/2/3/SE. And if you need it, here's the illustrated documentation:
[url]http://www.eugenia.co.uk/belkin/DOC_TECH0850.zip[/url]

[B]IMPORTANT:[/B] these drivers are good ONLY for the "rounded corners" Belkin model F8T020 ([URL=http://www.geeks.com/images/300x300/F8T020-FL-UNIT.jpg]picture[/url]). If you have the rectangle "F8T020 version 2" (aka F8T006, [URL=http://www.geeks.com/images/300x300/F8T006-UNIT.jpg]picture[/url]) then these drivers are [B]not[/B] for you. The F8T006 has its own, native PPC2003 drivers on its CD.