I just got myself a Microsoft Windows Media Center remote. When I opened up the box from the courier, I noticed no CD. Oh well, I thought, I’ll just download the drivers from the Microsoft website.
Wrong. There are no drivers available to download from the Microsoft website, even though there is a link on the page above saying “Download Software.” The drivers come pre-packaged in Windows XP Pro and MCE. So what do you do?
Search the internet! And I came upon this:
You can get them with the following procedure.
1) Download the Windows Update “Update Rollup 2 for eHome Infrared Receiver for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 (KB912024)” from microsoft. It is available from this page (Microsoft.com).
2) run the downloaded executable. When the Hotfix install wizard appears on the screen… STOP!! do not continue with the installation wizard.
3) run notepad, and open the file named kb912024.log that is located in your windows system directory (usually c:\windows\).
4) on the fourth line of this file you will find the path to the update executable (ie: c:\0d5602f37f532d2198a162164df6\update\update.exe).
5) Open Windows and navigate to the root of this path (ie: c:\0d5602f37f532d2198a162164df6). There you will find SP2QFE. Navigate to this directory.
6) In the SP2QPE directory you will find the irbus.sys file. In the “ip” directory will contain the irbus.inf file.
7) Copy these two files to a temporary directory of your choice.
Go back to the Hotfix install wizard and select CANCEL. The wizard will ask if you are sure… answer yes. The wizard will clean up after itself.
Thank you Cybrmage your method worked a treat!
Then all I did was check a box in MediaPortal and it worked. (Yes, I switched to MediaPortal over the weekend).
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