That's a lucky dog! Sounds cute though. You got pictures? ;-) >I need to read over all the IR related posts, because >my guess is you've already covered my issues, but >here's where I am with the IR situation. I have the >5300 and I have a 6500 desktop. They both run 8.6 I >have a Farallon IRdock, but I was never able to get >the 6500 to recognize it. About six months ago I got >frustrated and threw all the IR stuff in a box, where >it sat until just yesterday. The Farallon >documentation that came with the dock was only >minimally helpful. I can't find any documentation >online. I don't know why the 6500 won't see the dock.
Just to make sure, you aren't trying to use that IR window on the front of the 6500, are you? If so, that window only works with a remote control. It might sound silly, but the number of people who mistake this port for an IRTalk or IrDA port is really quite large. Granted, I don't have an AirDock, but I understood that it could be used as a "passive" transceiver. (The Farallon-provided software only works with MacTCP, so if you are running a newer Mac OS and OpenTransport on the 6500, you can't use it anyway). Plug the infrared transceiver into the printer or modem port of the 6500. Set AppleTalk to use that same port, and set up file sharing as you would for two desktops connected by a printer cable. On the 5300, set AppleTalk to IRTalk. Set file sharing if you need it on this end. Otherwise, go to the Chooser. If you turned on file sharing on the 6500 and the two machines respective IR ports are placed correctly (facing each other, about 1 - 3 feet apart), you should see the 6500 appear as a file server in the 5300's chooser... Of course, that's just assuming that the AirDock doesn't need drivers - I didn't think it did.... AFAIK, the drivers just route AppleTalk traffic from the 5300 to the rest of the LAN. (Note, you can do this with Apple's LocalTalk Bridge if you set AppleTalk to the modem port, plug the AirDock into the modem port, and attach a LocalTalk LAN to the printer port...) Oh, but this gets me started on all sorts of networking fun including IPNetRouter... ;-) So I'll stop before I get to deep into it. >Okay, let me see if I understand the gist of things: >the 5300 uses IRtalk, while most things use IRDA. So >the 5300 will not be able to IR with other things >unless they support IRtalk. Would we be able to IR >between a 5300 and a 1400? Yes. The 5300 and 1400 both do IRTalk and _only_ IRTalk. There's speculation that the hardware can do IrDA, but Apple never wrote the driver for it. In any case, you can't use IrDA on the 5300 or 1400, but IRTalk will work fine. (Actually, I'm pretty sure that all PowerBooks - except maybe late model G3s or G4s - can do IRTalk. Only the 190, 5300, and 1400 _CANNOT_ do IrDA, which all the others, iMac included, can do). Peace, Drew -- <http://homepage.mac.com/alk/> "There are of course many problems connected with life, of which some of the most popular are `Why are people born?' `Why do they die?' `Why do they spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?'" -- Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
