Re: IrDA....

[Tom Allison <tallison1@twmi.rr.com>]

Johan Romin wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> First off, I've never tried the irda package that comes whith debian. I always get the source tarball, and it has always worked for me..
>
> Have you tried to load the irda modules by hand? instead of hoping that irattach will do it for you?
> The error you see in the syslog, is to my knowledge due to you trying to attach a tty that isn't and IR one, or one that doesn't exist.
> Or maybe it is all because the modules aren't loaded.
>
> If you are only interested in sir, you might try the following procedure:
> insmod irda
> insmod irtty
> insmod ircomm
> insmod ircomm-tty
> irattach /dev/yourtty -s
>
> and then it should work... at least that one has never failed for me.
>
> 	/Johan
Bettter.
irdadump is showing the communication from my Pilot.
But jpilot throws:
pi_bind Permission denied
Check your serial port and settings
exiting with status -10
--
OK, I fixed /dev/ircomm0 to chmod '666'
but it's still not 100% - "resource Busy"

Question.  How do I get the ir modules to load automatically?