Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 07:30:08 +0000
From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem linking 2 Libs via IR and DCC solved
Looking back over Pres’s posts, and piecing the parts of the puzzle, I was
finally able to sort out my problems, and create a Windows DCC (Direct Cable
Connection) connection successfully between my L50 and L70 via IR
(infrared).
Th L70 setup was fine, but the L50 had a few problems. Pres had said that
he got his systems to use DCC on a virtual IR COM4 port. When I looked at
the IR settings for the L50 in Control Panel, I noticed that it was set for
COM5 and LPT2, instead of COM4 and LPT3. For anyone interested, or for
future reference, here are the problems I found with my setup.
1. IR had been turned off in the BIOS setup. This didn’t stop Windows from
finding the IR hardware, and letting me use IR successfully from My Computer
once it was enabled in Control Panel. However I think that the failure to
configure the virtual ports may have originated here. I set this value to
COM2 as Pres had said, and which coincided with the BIOS settings on my L70.
2. There needs to be two entries in Device Manager > Ports for:
Virtual Infrared COM Port
Virtual Infrared LPT Port
I found these were present on my L70, but not on the L50.
3. There also needs to be an entry in Device Manager for:
Infrared Devices
This was also missing in my L50, and may have eventually created the entries
in 2. above.
I’ll skip the various things I tried to fix the problem. What I finally
discovered worked was to go to “Add New Harware” in Control Panel, and
follow the windows to where I could manually install a piece of hardware. I
clicked “Infrared Devices” from the list, and when I clicked “Continue”,
Windows set things up successfully.
However the port settings for IR in Control Panel were still set to COM5 and
LPT2, and DCC still didn’t work.
So I deactivated IR in Control Panel, and did a CTRL-ALT-DEL, did a “End
Task” on IR, deleted the IR entry in Device Manager, and rebooted.
At that point I set up “Infrared Devices” in “Add New Harware” again, and
rebooted again. After a full boot, I went into the IR properties in Control
Panel to re-activate IR. At that point I found the IR virtual ports had
been successfully reset to COM4 and LPT3. Then I was finally able to get
DCC to connect the L50 to the L70 on COM4 via IR.
One thing I noticed was how incredibly long it took for the guest system to
see the host. I had only recently managed to eliminate the step for
entering the name of the host system while connecting DCC via cable. But
it’s appeared again using DCC via IR. It must have taken at least a minute
or more for this window to pop up and ask for the host system name.
Evidence of what people had warned would be a very slow connection I guess.
Matt
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