On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 01:21:32PM +0000, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm determined that one day I may actually be able to get my Irda
> port working on my Debian GNU/Linux laptop. The Irda port is
> /dev/ircomm0.
What type of laptop? Kernel revision?
I have it running nicely on a Dell I4000 under 2.2.20 (although
suspend/resume kills irda).
> I've now found out that although I'm used to using Irda with and SuSE
> latop - plug in hard drives - the list of instructions that is used
> to start the software is completely diferent than those used to start
> the same software in an SuSE system.
>
> Looking into the docs I find that I can edit the /etc/irda/drivers
> file so that /dev/ircomm0 is defined. Then when I type in
> '/etc/init.d/irmanager start' it says ...
>
> [[ snipped rest of mail ]]
I thought that irmanager was obsolete. But then I haven't been running
0.9.5 for quite a while... (replaced by irattach if memory serves).
Perhaps the linux-irda mailing list can help you here:
www.pasta.cs.uit.no/pipermail/linux-irda
(a google search on linux-irda is also revealing)
HTH
--
Karl E. Jørgensen
karl@jorgensen.com
www.karl.jorgensen.com
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