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Just scroll down all the way to the end till you find a key by the name of Microsoft Bluetooth 2.0 USB Dongle.

Ive added some further tips at the bottom on how you can manually select which adapter to use.

However, since my MacBooks internal Bluetooth device is actually already dead, I cannot verify this at this point of writing.

From what Ive read and seen, all you need is to get a compatible Bluetooth 4.0 module like the IOGEAR GBU521 Bluetooth 4.0 Micro Adapter and then enable it using the Continuity Activation Tool available here.

IOGEAR GBU521 Bluetooth 4.0 Micro Adapter Why I even explored getting a Bluetooth 4.0 USB dongle was due to the untimely demise of the onboard Bluetooth 2.1 chip on my 2010 MacBook Pro.

It just went dead without any warning after about 1.5 years of me using my MBP.

Youd be surprised that there isnt many that officially states OS X support, especially so for a Bluetooth 4.0 dongle.

So in the end, I decided to pick one that apparently used a photo of the dongle (see below) plugged into a MacBook Pro and hoped that it would work.

Why The eBay one has a bright blue LED thats always lit and can be pretty annoying at night.

So unless being a little bling-bling is your thing, get the IOGEAR GBU521 Bluetooth 4.0 Micro Adapter which looks a little more discreet.

Also, you can sometimes get pretty good deal on Amazon and get this dongle for as low as US13.50.

When I plugged in the dongle, Bluetooth support was nonexistent.

However, the USB dongle did register up in the USB Device Tree when I checked with the System Information.

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However, there isnt a driver that the OS can find for the Bluetooth dongle and therefore didnt load it up.

Seek out the IOBluetoothFamily.kext and open up the package contents.

Note to the newbies, a kext file is really just a special folder that holds a collection of files that make up the kernel extension.

Ill come to the installation steps soon, but go ahead and make a copy of the kext file now.

You can actually get this information from the System Information utility.

Just do a spotlight search for System Information if you dont know where to find it.

Selecting the item reveals the information you need which would be the Product ID and Vendor ID values.

And if youve gone ahead to open up the Info.plist file, youll then notice that the idProduct and idVendor values are in integer.

If you dont know how to convert hex to integer, just use this site here to do so.

Now that you know your Product ID and Vendor ID in integer form, lets move on to edit your plist file.

You should see a bunch of text in the form of an XML document.

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