Re: IRDA

[Johan Romin <johan@debian.as>]

Hi!

DON'T even think about using the irmanager, it's been discarded a long time..
Since you aren't specifying which irda device you are trying to use, nor for what purpose. let's assume you just want to connect your palm or mobile phone =)
insmod irda
insmod irtty
insmod ircomm
insmod ircomm-tty
if all the modules load correctly you use irattach /dev/my_tty_that_isnt_a_serial_but_serial_driver_say_it_is -s
this should bring up your irport to start looking for irdevices..
if you place your unit infront of the irport.
now typ cat /proc/sys/net/irda/discovery
if you then see a line that somehow indicateds that you have a device.
then all should work fine..
now point all software to use ircomm0 instaed of a standard serial device like ttyS0..

hope this helps..
-- 
	/Johan
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Life is but an Illusion of Death

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.
> 
> 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 ...
> 
> Starting IrDA manager: sh:  /proc/sys/net/irda/devname:  No such file 
> or directory.    Looking at it there is nothing in /sys/net.   No 
> config files or anything.
>   
>  I've attached  /dev/ircomm0 which is the IF port.  Also tried 
> Irdadump but that doesn't work either.  Probably because I can't 
> start irmanager.
> 
> Can anyone explain why I can't get Irmanager to start ?  Must be a 
> good reason for it.  I've installed ..  irda-common 0.9.5-2  ...  and 
> ... irda-tools 0.9.5-2 ...  is there any other Irda package that I 
> should install ?
> 
> I was able to meet Nokubi Takatsugu at the New York Linux Expo at the 
> Javits Center last month.  He's a really nice fella but he says he's 
> not very good at English.  Which probably explains why I can't get 
> any help with my Irda problems.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> -- 
> Richard
> 
> 
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