HARDWARE SUPPORT: ---------------- Switch Set on Thinkpads to enable infra-red connectivity: Enable one of the serial port along with the IRA device. Make sure that the interrupts are not in conflict. Distance the infra-red rays cover without error is 3 meters for the larger panels (back of the 755 series thinkpads). The infra-red front panels on the 755 series thinkpads cover only 1 meter distance. The infra-red rays travel in 30 degree angle so the infra-red panels should face each other within the 30 degree angle. Due to reflections it would work even they are not within the 30 degree angle if the distance between them are less than the specified limit (1 meter or 3 meter depending on the infra-red panels). To enable traces, the os2tracemask need to be set to a value greater than 0 under IRDNDIS_nif section in PROTOCOL.INI file under IBMCOM subdirectory. NETBIOS AND LAN SERVER TUNING ----------------------------- Due to the speed differences between LAN adapters and the parallel port, the following changes to configuration files need to be made to use this MAC: 1.In PROTOCOL.INI (located in the IBMCOM directory on the drive where MPTN is installed) [NETBEUI_nif] ADAPTRATE = 0 TI = 60000 T1 = 10000 T2 = 2000 MAXIN = 5 MAXOUT = 5 2.In IBMLAN.INI (located in the IBMLAN directory on the drive where OS/2 PEER or LAN Server/Requester is installed) [requester] sesstimeout = 300 [peer] ; The next lines help you to locate bits in the srvheuristics entry. ; 1 V Bit 15 changed to 2 to increase timeout ; 0123456789012345678 srvheuristics = 1111014111131102133 Install requirements: run=ibmcom\irdnds.exe line should be added to config.sys file.