seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) writes:

>I have an IR port.  It shows up as a COM port, which appears to mean that
>it should magically "just work" as a serial port.

>However, I never get anything at all from it except 0xff's, no matter what
>baud rates are in use.

IR ports often come as an IrDA high speed port with a COM 'legacy' part.
If you use the 'legacy' part you may need to disable the high speed port
in the BIOS.

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