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Re: 701 IR port and HPLJ5P
- To: "ThinkPad Mailing List" <THINKPAD@cs.utk.edu>, "Andreas Neus" <a.neus@uni-bonn.de>
- Subject: Re: 701 IR port and HPLJ5P
- From: "Joerg Klemenz" <joergk@ipf.de>
- Date: Sat, 12 Oct 96 01:26:49 -0100
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- Reply-To: "Joerg Klemenz" <joergk@ipf.de>
On Fri, 11 Oct 1996 09:17:38 -0400, Andreas Neus wrote:
>I seem to be unable to use the 701's IR port to print to a HPLJ5P, although
>from what I read, the hardware should be compatible. Unfortunately, neither
>the IBM, nor the HP web-pages offer any help on this (although they both hail
>this feature extensively in their ads :-)
>
>Do I need special software to access the 701's IR port, or is fiddling
>with the allocation of the lpt-port sufficient (something which I have tried,
>but to no effect).
I use only OS/2 on my 701. It came with no IR drivers.
Have a look at
ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/drivers/misc/infrared.zip
joerg klemenz
(joergk@ipf.de)