Infrared link

[bartsimpson]

I have an application that uses a COM port to communicate to another piece of equipment ( Running on a Dell laptop, Win XP Pro ). The other piece of equipment is a small box with only an infrared port.
I have enabled the IRDa port on the Dell laptop, and have created a wireless link. But the wireless link doesn't come up as a serial ( COM ) port. How can I map the infrared port to a COMport ?

 

[19753]

look in laptop bios for irda

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[bartsimpson]

I've enabled the IRDa in the BIOS, and set it to COM2. It was after this that I was able to create the wireless link. But it doesn't appear as a COM port.
The software that I have needs to see a COM port - it's quite old, but cannot be replaced.
Does anyone have any experience of the USB IR links ? Do they come with driver software that allows it to be called a COM port ?

 

[19753]

check in system hardware device to see if its setup in there and also it should be in the control panel where you can configure it.

well i have had experience with bluetooth usb which is similar. it sets it self to a com port, so i am assuming that the usb ir would do the same.

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[bartsimpson]

There is nothing in either of these places. I have a "wireless link" in control panel, but there are no options regarding a COM port. Likewise in the hardware manager.
Is there any software out there that can emulate a COM port ?