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    Help with Acer 2012 and Infrared

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by SakoEBS, Aug 15, 2004.

  1. SakoEBS

    SakoEBS Newbie

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    Hello. I've been trying to get my infrared to work on this laptop. My brother and I are trying to connect our two laptops together. However I can't seem to get it to work. It almost seems like I don't actually have an infrared port installed on this laptop. When I check under device manager I don't see any infrared port. I've using the drivers that came on the recovery disk, but that didn't work. If anyone could help me I would greatly appreciate it.
     
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  2. Brian

    Brian Working at 486 Speed NBR Reviewer

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    I had a similar problem on an old Dell. This question makes me a bit nostalgic as my current notebook doesn't have IR.

    Anyway...with the Dell, the IR needed to be enabled in the BIOS. It's a resource user that most people don't need, so Dell turned it off by default. This may also be your issue and would be the next place I'd look.

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    Brian, Aug 15, 2004
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  3. denis

    denis Notebook Enthusiast

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    I had the same problem. As Brian said, you have to enable it in CMOS settings. In my case it didn't work even after doing that.

    Open Control panel - Wireless Link. Under Image Transfer tab, uncheck "Use wireless link to transfer images ..." IR connection will establish after doing this.

    But the connection is very poor and disconnects easily. It gives extremely slow data transfer between my palm and the notebook.
     
    denis, Aug 17, 2004
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  4. Brian

    Brian Working at 486 Speed NBR Reviewer

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    No doubt...IR is pretty bad, but it works for small transfers just fine.

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    Brian, Aug 17, 2004
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