Bluetooth interfers with Game Controller

[SavannahLion]

I have a Dell Inspiron E1705 laptop that I do a lot of my Windows development on. And since my Linux box is dead, it's also a center for everything else. 

In any case, I decided to fire up some old Genesis games using Gens for giggles. To my surprise, the game controller was recognized but non-functional. I get a DXInput error.

Tried Gens32, same thing. Tried Fusion and it still wouldn't recognize the controller.

Bleh, so I went digging around and started fiddling around with some settings. Nothing worked.

Half-an hour later, I realized that the Bluetooth driver was presenting itself as a game controller in the interface list, even though I currently have no bluetooth controller active. Regardless of what I do, the damn BT interface refuses to be rearranged, tweaked or removed. So after some experimenation I discover the only way to get the game controller I want to work with the emulators is to disable bluetooth temporarily. The controller works great then.

Well, this isn't acceptable. I wanted to incorporate a bluetooth keyboard and mouse for those rare management sessions.

After some searching, the only reference I could find is on the Wiili forums. I can't believe that the problem is so narrow that no one else experiences this issue? On a whim, I deleted the Wiimote profile I had stored... and VOILA! The HID interface in the game controller manager went away. My controller works.

WTF??

This is going to be a royal pain.

[Howard_Casto]

Your using bluesoli?  Don't do that!  I have no clue why the creator of glove pie likes it so, because it causes so many issues.  The m$ bluetooth drivers don't have it show up as a hid joystick, so use those.

[SavannahLion]

Your using bluesoli?

I'm using the Toshiba stack.

I'm thinking of switching to the MS stack, but I don't know if the MS drivers will recognize my internal bluetooth module. Really don't feel like resorting to a dongle nor fussing with reinstalling the Toshiba drivers.

The ---fudgesicle--- tard who implemented a 30 day "trial period" in a bluetooth driver needs to be dragged out into a public square and mutilated with dull spoons and rabid ferrets while eating Paris Hilton's week old feces.

I'm using a Dell E1705 with the internal Bluetooth option. According to the Device Manager, I have a Dell internal 350 BT card.