This can be done with Windows 98 right out of the box using RAS plus
WinGate.
For 95 you need the IR drivers which can be downloaded from Microsoft.
Someone posted the directions for doing this on comp.sys.pilot (?) a couple
of years ago. Try checking deja.com.
I used to give a "stupid palm pilot tricks" talk every once in a while.
I always liked to show how you could use Emacs from a wireless pilot.
Unfortunalty Windows 2000 is crippled with respect to its IR capabilities.
Microsoft chose to remove IrComm support. Since upgrading I've had
to can the neat IR demos.
"Gordon, Douglas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:5537@palm-dev-forum...
>
> Has someone done the support for doing a serial-type PPP connection over
an
> infrared link from a Palm to, say, a PC? I guess that such a protocol
stack
> would look something like this:
>
> Browser/HTTP -> TCP/IP -> PPP -> IrDA - - - - - ->
>
> PPP normally runs just over the serial port. There is also the capability
in
> PalmOS of redirecting iR operations over the serial port, but I guess what
> I'm trying to do is to do the opposite: serial port operations over an Ir
> link.
There is nothing special going on here. This is the normal stack.
I was never able to get a browser to work properly over IR.
When I last fished for suggestions on these groups the general
'wisdom' was that there was a problem with the system's memory pool
being too small.
>
> Doug Gordon
>
>
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