Activate Bluetooth on Lenovo T400 or T500?

I have a laptop of Lenovo T500 (2242) on which I clean installed Windows 8 Pro. It has bluetooth inside hardware, and worked well in Vista and Windows 7, although I needed software "Logins" Lenovo to turn on the bluetooth radio. And by that I mean actually turn it on so that the operating system could see it and use it. If she had died through dial-up connections (more precisely, the FNF5 utility included), then the operating system nor the rest of the su same logins that the card was present. There is no specific hardware for this switch. There is a switch to turn on/off, I keep in the position "on" at any time WiFi.

Now in Windows 8, I can't turn on the Bluetooth card. It is enabled in the BIOS. I see the Bluetooth light turns on during the portion of the BIOS to boot, but as soon as Windows starts, the indicator turns off, and Windows doesn't seem to know that the card is present. I installed the following driver or software modules in my attempts to solve this problem:
  1. Bluetooth with Enhanced Data Rate software II for Windows 7 (32 bit, 64 bit), Vista (32-bit, 64-bit) - ThinkPad (in fact it has not installed; WIN8 warned it is incompatible and directed me to the site of Broadcom; (See #4).
  2. ThinkVantage Access Connections for Windows 7 (32 bit, 64 bit) - laptops (installs, but there's no help - the software runs, but doesn't say anything on bluetooth technology)
  3. Integration of features Hotkey for Windows 8 (32-bit, 64-bit), 7 (32 bit, 64 bit), Vista (32 bit, 64 bit), XP (32-bit, 64-bit) and 2000 - ThinkPad (installs, but keys such as Fn + F5 don't produce any action at all).
  4. Broadcom bluetooth drivers Installer Package. The Setup program tries to find a bluetooth device installed. It fails. Apparently because the card is not activated!
None helped at all. There is no evidence that the Bluetooth card is installed.
In other forums, I saw advice to activate the Bluetooth card in the Win8-style control panel 'PC to change the settings. It is not there; See this image for confirmation.
Can someone help me get this stupid operational bluetooth? I have included "T400" in the title because the T400 and T500 were essentially the same computer - just has a larger size of the screen and the frame to the other.
Thank you for your consideration.

Hello

Lenovo released Hotkey features integration on April 30, 2013. I installed, but it did not help in my case.
I manually browsed to the extraction folder (in my case C:\DRIVERS\HOTKEY\OSD\F5-8M) and found the file "TpFnF5.exe". It does exactly what I need - manages all radios. I guess that Windows 8 has taken control of Fn + F5, which initially should launch this application.
It will be useful.
PS: C:\DRIVERS\HOTKEY\OSD\F5 is a similar application, but without 'Airplane Mode' switch.

Mantas

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