Palm/Palm Pilot: Personal Experiences and Tips After years of failure I actually got IR HotSync working with a laptop. To say the least the industry's litany of problems with implementing the IRDA spec bodes ill for Bluetooth!



It is working with a Micron TransPort ZX PIII running Win2K SP2 with HotSync Manager 4.0 and PalmOS 3.5.3. This laptop was configured with COM2 disabled, I had to enable COM2 in the BIOS (auto) and restart. Windows 2000 then installed the Wireless Link control panel.



There are two important things to remember with Windows 2000 IR support:



* In the Wireless Link control panel you must disable the Image transfer (from camera) function. Otherwise the IR port is not available.

* Beam receive should be set to off on the Palm, otherwise the Palm reacts to a signal emitted from the laptop IR port and interprets in incorrectly.