Win2003 Devices not working - infrared is one of them

[Graham]

I have a brand new IBM T42 2373-KXU laptop, and installed Win2003. My
infrared is not working, and I cannot see any infrared devices in Device
Manager. I do have 4 "Other Devices" that show the drivers are not
installed. When I try to re-install each one, they fail. Does anyone know
how I can get my infrared working, and possibly the other devices too? The
laptop came with no driver disks, etc. and was pre-installed with WinXP Pro,
and IBM doesn't support Win2003 on this laptop.

Here is a list of the devices, along with their Location:

Multimedia Audio Controller - PCI bus 0, device 31, function 5
PCI Modem - PCI bus 0, device 31, function 6
Unknown Device - on Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Embedded Controller
Unknown Device - on PCI standard ISA bridge

[Miha Pihler]

Hi,

you can find here http://www.ntcompatible.com/thread24513-1.html how to
enable IR on Windows 2003. Also, make sure that Windows Audio service is
running.

For other devices, if IBM is not supporting them (didn't write a driver), we
can't do much here either :-\. You could try with Windows XP drivers - it
works some times.

Mike

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[Graham]

the provided includes a discussion, but not a solution to enabling IR.

Any other ideas?

Thanks, Graham

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[Miha Pihler]

Have you tried this, from the discussion?

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It works for me (W2K3 enterprise) after a bit of hacking.

Add correct device category by finding Ir320.inf using google. Remove the
exclusion and sys file from the inf. Install and remove it again
Or maybe a registry file like this will do... (save with extension .reg and
run it)

;***** BEGIN
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
;
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{6BDD1FC5-810F-11
D0-BEC7-08002BE2092F}]
"Class"="Infrared"
@="Infrared devices"
"EnumPropPages32"="NetCfgx.dll,NetPropPageProvider"
"Icon"="1401"
"Installer32"="NetCfgx.dll,NetClassInstaller"
;***** END

Download Windows W2K3 normal server (or 4-in-1). Expand some inf files.
Extract some files from DRIVER.CAB.

hidir.sys irbus.sys irclass.dll irda.sys irenum.sys irftp.exe irmk7.sys
irmon.dll irprops.cpl irsir.sys irsnap.chm irstusb.sys ir_begin.wav
ir_end.wav ir_inter.wav KBDIR.DLL msircomm.sys nscirda.sys rasirda.sys
smcirda.sys viairda.sys wshirda.dll

Then install your IR device using those files. It should automatically copy
them to the right system dirs.

Good luck and regards,
DarkFader
DarkFader.net
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Mike

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