From: Andy Beals (bandy_at_cinnamon.com)
Date: Wed Jan 24 2001 - 18:26:30 EST
[W95 ["Upgrade" version: 4.0.950], TP730TE, docked]
There's a little info here and there, but no step-by-step.
I installed W95IR.EXE [d/l'ed from microsoft [btw, as of 1515 Pacific today, I
can't get domain info [via nslookup] or connect to microsoft.com! NE1 else
C'ing the same?]] and told it to use the built-in port [default] and it picked
COM4, blowing the 730TE's pen connection out in the process. Allowed it to
put the virtual port support at COM5 and LPT3. Install went ok.
Helpful hints: W95IR.EXE dumps a lot of files into your current directory.
Make sure you're in a good place to drop those files. Then execute
.\setup.exe to actually install the files.
No help at all from IBM w/r/t drivers. And now my driver diskette is
mysteriously blank. Let's try something anyway.
Ok, says I. Fire up the IR control panel applet and no workie as expected.
Now, plug in the actual pcmcia card [with its dongle attached]. Windows finds
an "Unknown Device" and proceedes to ask me what the heck it is. After
verifying that there wasn't a driver for it as part of the usual Infrared
devices, I took a W.A.G. and said it was a communications port. Ka-bing! It
installed as COM2.
Start up the IR control panel applet, click the Options tab, and configure it
to use COM2 ... bada-bing! There we go. All of the sudden my palm is seeing
the thinkpad. De-select "Search for and provide status for devices in range".
Off to the windoze HotSync application [reduction of cables and docking
stations was my goal in buying this puppy!] and tell it to use COM5. Select
the HotSync app on my Palm and tell it to IR sync. Press the icon with my
fingernail and I get the happy sounds of sync!
---Hope this helps anyone else with one of these laying about.
Andy Beals in rainy San Jose, California
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