Re: Irda Problem

[Wolfgang Fuschlberger <wf-list@gmx.net>]

On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I have a problem with Irda on my Debian notebook hard disk.  How do I 
> start Irda in Debian 2.2 r3 ?  I normally use SuSE software which is 
> fine with Irda and so this is all a bit new to me.
> 
> I can see that the Irda drivers are loading at boot time but when I 
> do Irdadump as root the command line locks up suggesting that Irda 
> hasn't started.

Did you configure /etc/irda.conf correctly?
Did you create /dev/ircomm0 (on my laptop it wasnt created automatically and
so i was looking for the solution for quite a while :-) )
   Does the user have write permissions on /dev/ircomm0?

HTH

wolfgang