<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">A JM,<br> Most laptops have an IRDA ports, but there are two kinds. The older,<br>slower version called Serial IR, and the newer Fast IR
<br>Some laptops can switch between versions. Check the bios setup for an<br>option to change serial port to IR, then linux should detect it as COM2,<br>and it will work with LIRC using the lirc_sir module.<br><br>A quick search came up with this site, I hope it points you in the right
<br>direction<br><br><a href="http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_make_use_of_IrDA#LIRC_and_IrDA">http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_make_use_of_IrDA#LIRC_and_IrDA</a><br><br>As for power on/off, I don't know of any easy way to do that.
<br>If you have computer on 24-7, then you could set a cron schedule to send<br>wake-on-lan packets at the right time.<br><br>HTH<br>- Richard</blockquote><div><br>I was thinking about using the wake on lan function but didn't see it's usefulness in that I wanted to use the laptop with a more on/off scenario with my remote.
<br><br>It's a Latitude 4100, since you guy's think there currently isn't an on/off remedy I was thinking about using a modification I used on my xbox (<a href="http://xir.us/xirpro.aspx">http://xir.us/xirpro.aspx
</a>) that worked well I guess I could bypass the on/off switch, what do you guys think?<br><br>Thanks,<br></div><br></div><br>