JayGuerette
October 13th, 2002, 12:55 PM
This may help:
(from the help file, "Supported Hardware" section)
IrDA driver:
Girder has been written with the Actisys IR device, so I don’t know if any other devices work. Report please. Since the IrDA adapter wasn’t built to support the remote control protocol the recognition might not be to good, you might even need 2 or more presses before girder recognizes a command. For the Actisys IR device a baud rate of 4800 baud seems to work o.k., the repeat tolerance should be something like 60 (out of 100) and the recognition tolerance should be something like 80 (out of 100). To get these thing to work you’ll need to turn off the IrDA drivers of windows. Windows 95 should work fine, for Windows 98 you should check if the IrDA drivers where installed. You can find this out by checking the windows device manager for a Virtual comport. If that’s in there you’ll need to do the following:
In the file: C:WindowsinfMsports.inf add the following lines:
…
[Std]
%*PNP0510.DeviceDesc% = ComPort, *PNP0510 ; Generic IR device/Comm
...
[Strings]
*PNP0510.DeviceDesc = "Generic Ir Serial Port"
After you’ve added these two lines go to the Device manager and remove the device associated with the IrDA stuff:
- IrDa Network Adapter
- Virtual COM/PRT ports
- Infrared device
Reboot.
After the reboot windows will redetect the IrDA adapter but will install the drivers like Windows 95 did. And Girder should work.
(from the help file, "Supported Hardware" section)
IrDA driver:
Girder has been written with the Actisys IR device, so I don’t know if any other devices work. Report please. Since the IrDA adapter wasn’t built to support the remote control protocol the recognition might not be to good, you might even need 2 or more presses before girder recognizes a command. For the Actisys IR device a baud rate of 4800 baud seems to work o.k., the repeat tolerance should be something like 60 (out of 100) and the recognition tolerance should be something like 80 (out of 100). To get these thing to work you’ll need to turn off the IrDA drivers of windows. Windows 95 should work fine, for Windows 98 you should check if the IrDA drivers where installed. You can find this out by checking the windows device manager for a Virtual comport. If that’s in there you’ll need to do the following:
In the file: C:WindowsinfMsports.inf add the following lines:
…
[Std]
%*PNP0510.DeviceDesc% = ComPort, *PNP0510 ; Generic IR device/Comm
...
[Strings]
*PNP0510.DeviceDesc = "Generic Ir Serial Port"
After you’ve added these two lines go to the Device manager and remove the device associated with the IrDA stuff:
- IrDa Network Adapter
- Virtual COM/PRT ports
- Infrared device
Reboot.
After the reboot windows will redetect the IrDA adapter but will install the drivers like Windows 95 did. And Girder should work.