My Laptop does not detect Active sync -can anyone help?

[rukshmani]

I have an IBM T42 laptop with windows xp installed on it. I installed Active Sync 4.2 on it. Now when I connect my PPC 6700 to it via USB, the wizard starts and then does not detect the phone. It says USB, COM1 etc available but still nothing happenes. Then Itry via IR port and it works fine. I want to use USB as I want to use Remote Desplay Control to control my ppc from laptop.

Does anyone know how to resolve this? Any other application I can use to sybc or for remote display? By the way its a laptop given to me at work. Thanks in advance.