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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