Johan > now type cat /proc/sys/net/irda/discovery > if you then see a line that somehow indicates that you have a > device. then all should work fine.. Got down to this part of it and all I got on the next line was.... 0 which kind of suggests that I might have got it wrong somewhere. Tried /dev/ttyS/0/1/2 and /dev/ircomm0. So, I'm going in the right direction but the brain cells still haven't quite switched on to what's happening yet. Mmmm.... -- Richard