Infrared?

[Kurt Wall]

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
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