T61 7659 CTO, Bluetooth BCD-2 built in yes or no?

Question

Dear T61 community,
am somewhat stuck with my Bluetooth issue on the
T61 7659-CTO,  running on Vista 32bit SP1
in front of me, and would ask you for a clear statement:
Is a chance left that the T61 has Bluetooth built-in?
I am not sure.
There seem to be very similar, yet unsolved questions for other T61 users, too:
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/T61-and-prior-T-series-ThinkPad/How-to-activate-Bluetooth-device/m-p/253...
Is an answer for me an answer to them?
First of all thanks for the multitude of previous answers I could read to sort the matter to a certain degree
and thus to guide me which supportive facts would allow you best to judge.
Here is what I have fond out:
On the Lenovo parts lookup, my model seems to have been shipped with a lot of valuable parts,
incl. an entry relevant to Bluetooth
Mfg part #      FRU part #  Description                                                                            Serviceable? 
41W1156      0000000     CALLISTO (BDC-2) WW SKU:WIRELESS COMBO A    NO
To give me hope, there is an LED symbol for Bluetooth waiting to show light next to the WLAN icon (WLAN icon is on, green, BT isn't).
However, with the hardware radio switch on the front on,
and when pressing Fn+F5, my 802.11 wireless radio does show,
while a Bluetooth entry would not show.
Reducing my hopes further, there is no entry for Bluetooth in the Control Panel.
Reducing my hopes even further, there is no entry for Bluetooth, Callisto or anything else
in the Device Manager > Network adaptors except:
Intel 82566MM Gigabit
Intel/PRO Wireless 3945A
and hidden WAN miniports
Reducing my hopes to a minimum, when trying to install a Bluetooth driver enabler/update 7vbv05ww.exe from Lenovo's support page, it states "no bluetooth device was detected".
Anyone left who can give me back some hope with a clear advice?
Or do I have to accept that I ought to buy a USB Bluetooth dongle somewhere?
many regards
Mika at work
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Answer 1

Mike,
If you purchased a Bluetooth adapter (and it appears you did), there is no reason you should have to purchase a USB adapter.
I would suggest the following:
1)  Make sure you have the current BIOS installed.
2)  Make sure the Bluetooth adapter is not disabled in BIOS....if so, it will be invisible to the OS.
3)  Make sure to follow the ReadMe instructions for the Bluetooth software to the letter.
4)  Make sure to have the latest HotKey Utility installed.
T61 Driver page - http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-67853
5)  If you do the above and still do not have any luck, call the Help Desk for Warranty Support.  You can have the system serviced under your warranty term as you could possibly have a bad BT card.
Hope this helps!