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    Infrared on Acer 5920g

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by zippy77777, Aug 3, 2008.

  1. zippy77777

    zippy77777 Notebook Geek

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    Simple question, how do you actually get it to work, or should i say receive. I have a Nokia N95 and yes I know its bluetooth and thats fine but I want to know how you get the laptop to receive from infrared.

    I have switched it on, on the phone and send via infrared but the lappy wont pick it up or connect to the phone.

    How do you do this, someone must have used the IR port, its loaded in my device manager coz I just checked and theres no yellow exclamation mark by it so i guess its working.

    What am I doing wrong?

    Thankie
     
    zippy77777, Aug 3, 2008
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  2. bigspin

    bigspin My Kind Of Place

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    Sorry mate ! AS5920G infra-red unit works only with Media Remote Controllers (CIR) .It's not a data transfer unit.
     
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  3. zippy77777

    zippy77777 Notebook Geek

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    Oh right, cool, thanks for that at least I know, using bluetooth anyway, was just curious...
     
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    acer5720z Newbie

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    Do that about IR apply also to Aspire 5720z?
     
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  5. zippy77777

    zippy77777 Notebook Geek

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    I would have thought it was for all of the aspire range.
     
    zippy77777, Aug 3, 2008
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