Posts by c5kirk

Well, went into the BIOS last night and there was an entry in there for COM Port and sure enough once I enabled that I found the options for IRDA & FIR (as well as a few others). Chose FIR, rebooted, checked Device Manager and...

Thanks for the replies. I checked the Drivers CD again but there aren't any IR drivers on there. I purchased the machine from PC Torque. I have requested a callback from Sager Support but haven't heard from them yet. However, I...

Hi there. I have a 5680 running Windows XP Pro. I hadn't needed to use my IR port for anything since I got the machine, but today I wanted to transfer some ringtones to my Nokia using IR. To my surprise I found that I don't have an...

That's odd... I just downloaded and installed the newest drivers from the Sager website (http://www.sagernotebook.com/pages/tech_sfwrdls.html#1) and it worked fine... if you look in Device Manager do you have an entry for Bluetooth...

Well... found out what it was. I hadn't installed the Bluetooth driver. Went out to the Sager site, got the driver and installed it and that got rid of the error... plus now I've got Bluetooth... I'd actually forgotten that I had...

Hi there. I have a 5680 with the built-in 802.11g adapter. It works okay (range isn't great, but okay).... but whenever I am using it and try to start any Office 2003 application the Office application immediately crashes. Same thing...

Hi there... when I look at the Device Manager panel under Windows XP everything looks fine except that under "Other Devices" it lists "USB Device" and has a big yellow exclamation point over it indicating that it...

That did it. Thanks! Kirk

Hi there. I've installed the Mandrake 9.2 Powerpack Release on my Sager 5680. Everything went find and is working except for sound. I'm using the 'snd-intel8x0' driver. Mandrake is describing the sound card as the...

Never mind... already figured this out when installing 9.2rc2... just forgot... here it is again in case anyone else runs into this... PCMCIA Setup: Go to the configuration menu and select install software. Do a search on pcmcia...