Re: [NTLK] ThinkPad vs. MessagePad

From: doppler (doppler_at_mac.com)
Date: Tue Feb 12 2002 - 15:21:26 EST


scotty technoir [ticknor_at_punkass.com] wrote the following 2002-02-12 01.48:

> the newton will not establish a connection. however, the ThinkPad sure perks
> up when the beam occurs. the beaming applet starts in the system tray, and
> the rollover tooltip even states, verbatim, "Newton is in range.".
> so i am led to wonder what exactly is telling the applet that it is talking
> to a Newton device? i suspect it must be the newton announcing itself, but
> what i don't know about IRDA protocols could fill a grain elevator.
> can anyone provide a deeper understanding of this? there are many other
> protocols available in the ThinkPad driver, ie S[low]IR, a few HP, Dell,
> IBM, three Sharp, siemens.

the same happens with a mac powerbook out of the box, withot all this
twirking. the problem is most probably the IR implementation of NCU (CMIIW)

/over

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