Re: IrDA....

[Chris Halls <chris.halls@nikocity.de>]

On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 09:06:41PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote:
> OK, I probably did some "bad things" here.
> But this is what I've done...
> 
> 1) dselect -> purge -> irda-common, irda-utils
> 2) rm /dev/ir* (removed all these various irda related device references)
> 3) dselect -> install -> irda-common, irda-utils

What distribution are you running?  potato? testing? unstable?

> (left the configuration file /etc/irda.conf alone, it looked about right)
> 
> 4) ran 'dpkg-reconfigure irda-common' and did not edit the 
> /etc/irda.conf file.

Are you tring to get fast infrared?  If so, you will need to uncomment the
lines in /etc/modutils/irda:

---- /etc/modultils/irda -----
# To use the NSC driver on a Thinkpad laptop: uncomment the following:
options nsc-ircc dongle_id=0x09
alias irda0 nsc-ircc
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Make sure your /etc/irda.conf uses 

IRDADEV=irda

/dev/irda comes from the NSC irda module.  Make sure that is a part of the
kernel you have.

If you are running devfs, you may also need to add these lines to
/etc/irda.conf so devfsd can autoload the ircomm module if needed:

---- /etc/modultils/irda -----
# Devfs autoload
alias /dev/ircomm0 ircomm-tty
alias /dev/ircomm1 ircomm-tty
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If you need more detail about the individual steps, let me know.

Chris