Ashok, infrared is not something I've played with much, but I have built a
number of computers, and in my experience, most modern mobos have onboard
connectors to enable an infrared port to be established.  You'd need to
check out your mobo manual to see if the pins are there, then get yourself a
backplate with cable attached.

Ian Porter
Computer Guys
Arrowtown
New Zealand
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ashok Bhiman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 2:29 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Connecting Laptop with Desktop


> PCBUILD Digest - 21 Mar 2002 to 22 Mar 2002 (#2002-82)Hello,
> I have a laptop which has a serial (COM) port, a parallel port, a USB port
> and an infra-red port. My desktop has COM, parallel and USB but no
> infra-red. My question is how do I physically connect the two? What are
the
> cables required? I use Win98 on both.
> Thanks
> Ashok
>
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