Bluetooth difficulties

[AdamAdsy]

The situation is i have a toshiba satellite 5200-803D which has bluetooth built in. I recently purchased a logitech mx900 in the hope i could connect it to my laptop without needing to use the hub which comes with it and to use the hub to do some wireless networking. This does work although the logitech drivers do not work unless i use the provided hub, so i can not customize the buttons.

Now the problem i have is, i am trying to use the hub with a different pc to wirelessly connect the laptop to the internet (or the LAN). I understand there is some internet connection sharing needed on the pc with the bluetooth hub installed but im having problems getting the 2 computers to talk at all. So far i have managed to get serial ports detected but thats as far as it goes. One thing i have noticed is that the pc with the mx900 hub has a "bluetooth network" installed with the other network cards/firewire stuff. This however does not appear on the laptop, i have tried installing a toshiba bluetooth lan emulator but this causes the laptop to lockup and requires safe mode to be used to remove the driver.

So i am stuck as to what to do next, i can not seem to find any useful guides for this particular situation as a lot of the guides seem to be geared towards PDAs or mobiles.

Both systems are running XP (laptop uses home, other uses pro) and the laptop uses the Toshiba bluetooth stack whereas the logitech one seems to use microsofts bluetooth drivers + software.

I would really appreciate some help getting all this working since this mouse is quite an expensive investment for it not to be doing its intended purpose.

[cat5e]

Bluetooth is not your prime time choice for Network work. It was really developed as the next level of IR to control Keyboards Printer, PDA etc.

You got caught in it because you have Bluetooth in your Laptop and it is hard to let Go?

You want to start a Nice Wireless Network?

At the moment the best performance for the price is: D-Link Extreme G Bundle Kit ($89 after rebate). (http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=10344769&loc=101&sp=1)

Why?

Link to: 802.11a/b/g SOHO Routers & Access Points: Performance. (http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/reviews/CD/article.php/1585191)

Notice how the D-Link and Netgear Super G stick out above the Crowd.

This Router will start you with the Laptop, can be connected to four computers with cables, and to many computers wirelessly.

The expense for each cabled computer is $5-$10 for a Network Card.

[AdamAdsy]

well i managed to get the 2 computers to connect wirelessly, was only possible due to a bluetooth update from toshiba (annoying because of all the time spent trying to get it working before).

Although i am able to connect the laptop wirelessly to 1 other computer it is still unable to access any others. At the moment i have:

Router (connected to net) on: 192.168.1.1
Other computers on: 192.168.50-98 (various numbers between 50 and 98)
Computer with mx900 bluetooth hub attached on:192.168.1.99
Computer with mx900 bluetooth hub (bluetooth ip) on:192.168.0.1
Laptop bluetooth on: 192.168.0.2

Now the computer with connections to both networks can access all the computers. Other computers can see all but the laptop. The laptop can only see itself and the computer with both connections.

I have tried unsuccessfully to use ICS, xp software bridging, gunnproxy, winproxy, and analogx proxy to connect the laptop to the other.

Im not to bothered about having a full wireless network, i just want to connect a laptop wirelessly to a fully wired network without it costing me more. This is just for net browsing and the bluetooth in this case is faster than my internet connection so i do not really need anything faster :)

one last thing, if i change the laptop bluetooth ip to: 192.168.1.2
and the other bluetooth connection to: 192.168.1.3
then they stop working, any idea why this might happen (this might be whats stopping the bridging from working)

Thanks for any assisstance. ;)

[AdamAdsy]

ok, after posting that last message i disabled dhcp on my router and the internet seems to be working on my laptop using ICS now.

There is just 1 last problem left, under network neighbourhood none of the other computers appear but i can access them if i use their ip addresses instead of the computer names. Is there anything i can run which will allow me to use the computer names (like some kind of dns server on the computer with 2 networks attached?)

Thanks again