eHome Infrared Transceiver XP Driver?

[dot09]

I bought the Anyware GP-IR02BK Vista 2 channel IR Remote Control from Newegg.com for $27.

I have Windows Vista Enterprise on my laptop. The remote installs and works perfectly.

I have Windows XP MCE 2005 will all patches & updates installed at home. I have been unable to find an XP driver for this remote.

XP recognizes the "eHome Infrared Transceiver" but can not locate a driver for it. Googling for that produces results that point back to Microsoft's site in which they state an MCE update roll-up contains the appropriate drivers. This is probably for a previous revision as it does not work for the transceiver I have -- at least it won't install. I tried manually applying the M$ update and it stated that the update was unnecessary as a newer update had already been applied.

I'm a little bit stumped. Any ideas on where I might get an XP driver for this thing and/or get the old one to install?

The Anyware manufacturer site is no help. It has no drivers for their remotes.

-dot

[gr8npwrfl]

I have been working on this for a while.

Right now the only way to make that remote work is either Vista or Ubuntu with 0.84a Lirc.

I extracted the drivers for the IR remotes from MCE 2005 and they can be installed on XP and make the older remotes work.

I extracted the drivers from Vista and tried to make them work on XP ---- NO GO.

The thing is if Media Center XP 2005 does not support this remote then you can not get it to work right now.

I would say you could try the Intelliremote software but if you do not have at least the base drivers it will not work so don't waste your money.

If you are going to run XP my best recomendation is to find a XP media center compatible remote. Then you can install the drivers I extracted and run on plain XP.

[dot09]

I was planning on pointing the device to whatever eHome driver the WinXP MCE 2005 already had tonight in hopes that it might work even if not 100%. I went to bed at 2:00 AM last night after a full OS install and all the patching + bit-fiddling ... maybe just fresh eyes will help.

Heck, all I want is basic navigation: up, down, left, right and enter. I can install Vista on the machine. It's a very old system and I assumed XP would perform better. Heck, maybe I'll just buy an XP MCE remote and use that PC in my family room.

-dot