Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 23:45:14 -0400
From: "Pres Waterman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: infrared
>> Yes, Toshiba has a 95 driver. I believe it is called tosir95.exe but if
you
>> really really need to know I can look it up tonight.
>
>Id love it if youd be able to find it and pass the link on to me, I looked
>at tosh's site and couldnt find it in the search at all.
OK. It is IRPCI95.exe for the PCI-based L100 series for Win95
Here is the readme:
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Toshiba IR Driver for Windows 95
Installation Instruction
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This document is to describe the Toshiba IR driver installtion for Windows
95.
1. After files have been downloaded, open the folder C:\IR.W95 and run
TOSIR.EXE.
2. Choose "Yes" to install the driver.
3. After files are self-extracted, click "Next" on the "Welcome" screen.
4. The window screen "Select NOT used COM" will appear. Please select the
COM
port to be used by infrared device, not the ports which already used by
other
devices (i.e. modem, serial). Click "Next" to continue.
5. Click "Yes" on "System Reboot" screen to reboot the computer.
After the machine has been restarted, "Infrared(COM X-chosen COM port)" will
show
under System properties/Device Manager/Ports section.
Toshiba IR driver provides Infrared Communication Driver MSIR20 to your
system. It
will add serial and printer infrared devices to your computer. To install
MSIR20,
please follow these steps below:
1. From Control Panel/Add New Hardware, click "Next" on the hardware wizard
screen.
2. Select "No" for not to search for your new hardware and click "Next" to
continue.
3. On "Hardware Types" box, select "Infrared" and click "Next".
4. Click "Next" again to continue. "Add Infrared Device Wizard" screen will
appear.
5. Select "Standard infrared devices" on "Manufacturers:" box and "Built-in
Infrared
port on laptop or desktop" on "Models:" box. Click "Next" to continue.
6. Choose "ToshibaIR(COM X)" as your driver. Click "Next" to continue.
7. On the next screen, accept the default infrared serial and printer ports,
or you can
change the port setting. Click "Next" to continue and provide Windows 95
files when
asked. Click "Finish" when copy files are done.
8. Reboot the computer.
After the installation, an Infrared icon will show in Control Panel.
Infrared section,
serial, and printing will be added in Device Manager.
NOTE: You can only use MSIR20 or Intellisync one at a time. Please disable
MSIR20 before
running Intellisync software. MSIR20 will also not work on Windows 98.
And...
>
>> I have even played an MPEG video
>> ( poorly ) over an infrared connection.
>
>I take it that playback of a DivX movie is out of the question on a 166MHz
>processor? What if I clocked it to 266MHz?
>Has anyone tried one of the Margi MPEG2 DVD decoder cards on a lib?
I have used the Margi DVD card with a CNF Card-port DVD player successfully
on a stock L100. Not perfect but usually OK. Some skips in the audio.
>
>
>> Basically, several things have to happen. In the L50 vintage, BIOS set up
>> the infrared device, ususally COM2. In the 100 era, the infrared gets
>> enabled through a p-n-p driver.
>>
>> So for example, suppose the p-n-p driver makes the infrared device on
COM3.
>
>In my case it is always set as COM1, which is sharing it with the built
>inCOM port on the docking station. Is this how it should be as it seems in
>my situation that this is going to interfere with things that want to use
>the physical COM1 port?
>
>> Then MSIR20 takes the COM3 and "provides application support" on COM4 and
>> LPT3. These are virtual ports that you print to or use DCC on just like
>> there was a cable. The MSIR20 also seeks other infrared devices and
provides
>> feedback that a conection exists.
>
>Ive found that it says that it is sensing for devices under Win95, but does
>not detect them. It detects them fine under WIn98.
>
Well, the problem is it is sharing COM1. As the instructions state you
select an unused port like COM3 to look for the infrared device, then MSIR20
attaches to that COM3 and makes a COM4 available to the applications.
Pres Waterman W2PW
c/o Patchogue Motors, Inc.
Long Island Ford and Kia dealer
GO BILLS!
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