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Troubleshooting 274 12 Infrared problems The communicator may be connected to a PC, laptop, printer, digital camera, wireless phone or another communicator via the infrared connection. If you are using the PC Suite for Nokia 9290 Communicator program on your PC, or if you want to receive data from another communicator or a digital camera, you must activate the Infrared connection on your communicator before the connection is made. See PC Suite Guide in the sales package CD-ROM and 'Activate the infrared connection' on page 90 of this guide. The PC to which you want to establish the connection must have an IrDA compatible infrared port; installed and activated IrDA drivers; and Microsoft Windows 95/98/98SE/Me. For more information on IrDA drivers and their use in Windows, contact Microsoft. If you have an IBM Thinkpad laptop with Windows 98 SE installed, you may encounter problems with infrared connections. If problems occur, proceed as follows: 1 Click the Windows Start button and select Settings > Control Panel. 2 In the Windows 98 Control Panel, open System. 3 In the System properties dialog, select the Device Manager tab. 4 Under System Adapters, select IBM Thinkpad Fast Infrared Port and click the Properties button. IBM Thinkpad Fast Infrared Port Properties dialog opens. 5 Click the Driver tab and then click the Update Driver... button. Update Device Driver Wizard starts. 6 Click Next.

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274
Troubleshooting
12
Infrared problems
The communicator may be connected to a PC, laptop, printer, digital camera,
wireless phone or another communicator via the infrared connection.
If you are using the PC Suite for Nokia 9290 Communicator program on your PC,
or if you want to receive data from another communicator or a digital camera,
you must activate the Infrared connection on your communicator before the
connection is made. See PC Suite Guide in the sales package CD-ROM and
‘Activate the infrared connection’ on page 90 of this guide.
The PC to which you want to establish the connection must have an IrDA
compatible infrared port; installed and activated IrDA drivers; and Microsoft
Windows 95/98/98SE/Me. For more information on IrDA drivers and their use
in Windows, contact Microsoft.
If you have an IBM Thinkpad laptop with Windows 98 SE installed, you may
encounter problems with infrared connections. If problems occur, proceed
as follows:
1
Click the Windows
Start
button and select
Settings
>
Control Panel
.
2
In the Windows 98 Control Panel, open
System
.
3
In the
System properties
dialog, select the
Device Manager
tab.
4
Under
System Adapters
, select
IBM Thinkpad Fast Infrared Port
and click the
Properties
button.
IBM Thinkpad Fast Infrared Port Properties
dialog opens.
5
Click the
Driver
tab and then click the
Update Driver...
button.
Update
Device Driver Wizard
starts.
6
Click
Next
.