Re: IrDA....

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

On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 07:06:49AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote:
> Chris Halls wrote:
> >
> >---- /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
> >------------------------------
> >
> Everything here was done by the .deb except for the section on "alias 
> /dev/ircomm0 ircomm-tty"
> no dice.

Are you _sure_ about that?  The NSC lines are commented out in the version
the package installs.  I even got the latest source package and checked it
before posting.  Here is a diff of the source package version against my version:

--------------------------
chris@shawn:/usr/local/src/debs/irda-utils-0.9.14/debian$ diff -u
modutils-irda /etc/modutils/irda
--- modutils-irda       Mon Sep 10 13:16:25 2001
+++ /etc/modutils/irda  Wed Aug  1 15:23:44 2001
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@
 # The following is for old kernel.
 alias char-major-60 ircomm_tty
 
+# Devfs autoload
+alias /dev/ircomm0 ircomm-tty
+alias /dev/ircomm1 ircomm-tty
+
 # To be able to attach some dongles
 alias irda-dongle-0 tekram
 alias irda-dongle-1 esi
@@ -24,5 +28,5 @@
 # alias irda0 w83977af_ir
 
 # To use the NSC driver on a Thinkpad laptop: uncomment the following:
-# options nsc-ircc dongle_id=0x09
-# alias irda0 nsc-ircc
+options nsc-ircc dongle_id=0x09
+alias irda0 nsc-ircc
--------------------------

Chris