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Old Jan 23, 2003 | 02:50 PM
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I have an old Dell laptop for work and it's running on windows 2000. I can't get my laptop to see my mobile via infra red I have installed all the software from Nokia but no luck. Has anyone got any ideas how to fix this?

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Old Jan 23, 2003 | 03:20 PM
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Do you have the infra-red utility inatalled;
and also enabled in the BIOS !!

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Old Jan 23, 2003 | 03:21 PM
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With Dell you have to enable the infrared in the BIOS before it works.
Go here and search for infra red.

http://delltalk.us.dell.com/supportforums

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[Edited by Beastie - 1/23/2003 3:24:51 PM]
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Old Jan 23, 2003 | 03:55 PM
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Just been looking at it and it's disabled in the BIOS for some reason and I don't have rights to enable it The IT guy is going to sort it tomorrow now

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Old Jan 23, 2003 | 04:09 PM
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I used to have problems with the IR port causing the serial port problems when using an external ISDN TA - so kept the IR disabled unless I needed it.

Doesn't happen now - so one of the BIOS upgrades must have fixed it. (Dell Latitude)

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Old Jan 23, 2003 | 04:46 PM
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Deano

Mine's the Dell latitude too. I just hope that fixes it.

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