It looks like the MITSUMI floppy works in this laptop, although it has misaligned heads (which scraped off mold from my floppy). It just throws up disk not formatted errors when reading good know disks. About the IRDA issue I have managed to find the (what I hope is) correct dev ID and its an toshiba IRDA fir type-O, but the drivers just don't work (even the COMPAQ ones, although they just add some registry and copy over 2 .dll files). Any ideas what can be done about the IRDA?

I managed to make the original IrDA drivers for win95 work on 98se, although it installed the port as virtual compaq IrDA. In IrDA settings it just says that the service isn't turned on and I need to turn it from control panel (there's no IrDA settings in there). Any ideas if I can do something so the IrDA will work?

kotel wrote on 2024-09-29, 08:52:

I managed to make the original IrDA drivers for win95 work on 98se, although it installed the port as virtual compaq IrDA. In IrDA settings it just says that the service isn't turned on and I need to turn it from control panel (there's no IrDA settings in there). Any ideas if I can do something so the IrDA will work?

Is this anything like the process you followed?...

Were you using the latest W95 drivers (just in case!)

PC Hoarder Patrol wrote on 2024-09-29, 10:25:

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kotel wrote on 2024-09-29, 08:52:

I managed to make the original IrDA drivers for win95 work on 98se, although it installed the port as virtual compaq IrDA. In IrDA settings it just says that the service isn't turned on and I need to turn it from control panel (there's no IrDA settings in there). Any ideas if I can do something so the IrDA will work?

Is this anything like the process you followed?...

The attachment Installing Microsoft Windows 98 on Compaq Portable Products - Appendix 8 Infrared Functionality.pdf is no longer available

Were you using the latest W95 drivers (just in case!)

The attachment SP4552.EXE is no longer available

I have followed a similar procedure. Before getting the drivers onto the drive (theres no way of communicating with pc!) I tried installing a universal IrDA port but that didn't remove the unknown device. Then I installed the drivers from the SP3221 and I had to point it manually to it. 98 showed only virtual port driver from 2 .infs (SMC_DEV and SMC_INST). I have no idea how the BIOS is set cause the floppy drive is dead and the keyboard. I may try the newer version of drivers, but I'd need to screw around with setting up a pc that has floppy.
I may try to make an connection by COM port but I'd need to screw around with software and making adapters.

It looks like the driver you linked is way different to mine. It has more .inf files and 1 more .dll one. I will attempt to install it tomorrow and see what happens.

Tried it but it detected the .inf files as built in infared port on laptop or desktop and couldn't find irmonhelp file. After pressing skip it ended with an error code (I think it was 1FB or similar).
I also just now saw that the IrDA control panel says error 45 when I use the older SP3221. After changing in network properties the COM port from 3 to 4 it now detects it as a network card. The IrDA control panel also doesn't complain anything. Sadly it doesn't see any other IrDA devices. Any ideas on how to make it see other PC's?