<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi! I have been using a "<FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Logitech Mobile Bluetooth Headset" on my Mac PB G4 for a while now, first with various 10.3.X versions of Mac OS X, now with 10.4.2, mainly with SKYPE</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT>All of the sudden, the headset started to behave very strangely. It does no longer appear in the SKYPE "preferences>audio" pane, nor it does in the "system preferences>sound" pane. When I switch it on, it connects with the mac (as seen on the "system preferences>bluetooth>devices" pane), but: i) it disconnects ~1 min after, and ii) even while it stays connected it does not show in the audio/sound panes, as descrobed above.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Do you think it is hardware failure, or may it be that the bluetooth configuration on the mac has gone bananas?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>many thanks for your advice!</DIV><DIV>SB</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT><DIV> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">---</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Stefano Baroni - SISSA<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>&<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center - Trieste</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">[+39] 040 3787 406 (tel) -528 (fax) / stefanobaroni (skype)</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Please, if possible, don't<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>send me MS Word or PowerPoint attachments</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Why? See:<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html</A></FONT></P> </DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>