Feigning erudition, Ted Ozolins wrote:
% Kurt Wall wrote:
%
% >Hello, list,
% >
% >Using Alan Cox's dmidecode utility, I discovered that one of my
% >boxen apparently has an IR connector:
% >
% >Handle 0x001B
% > DMI type 8, 9 bytes.
% > Port Connector
% > Internal Designator: IR1
% > Internal Connector Type: Infrared
% > External Designator: IR1
% > External Connector Type: Infrared
% > Port Type: Other
% >
% >Do I *really* have such a thing on this beast and, if so, what do
% >I do with it?
% >
% >Thanks,
% >
% >Kurt
% >
% >
% Quite a few MB's have the header for attaching an external ir port, the
% chipset to use the port is on the MB. If you were to look at the manual
% that came with your MB there should be a pinout for that port.
Oy. The fine manual! There's a notion. :-\
% Now if you had a laptop with an ir port, you could use that to transfer
% files, or if you had a printer with an ir port then of course you could
% use the ir as the printer port.
I have a laptop with an IR port. I have a Palm m515 with an IR port.
Have IR, will beam. ;-) Wootberries!
% One other way to see if you have the ir port on the MB is to look at
% your BIOS setup and see if there is a setting for it...
I didn't see a setting in the BIOS, but, well, I got distracted looking
at other settings.
Kurt
--
Weinberg's First Law:
Progress is made on alternate Fridays.
_______________________________________________
Linux-users mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
