Re: Inspiron 8000 IrDA problem
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On 20 Mar 2002 14:35:50 +0200, Fabian Fagerholm writes:
>> I'm writing this on an 8100. `lsmod|grep ir`:
>> irtty 7340 2 (autoclean)
>> irda 129241 1 (autoclean) [irtty]
>
>Ok, so you're not using the smc-ircc module at all?
I don't.
>It may very well be
>impossible to get FIR working with this hardware, so I guess I'll have
>to settle for SIR, which means that I can stop thinking about smc-ircc.
Well, I don't have any FIR-capable device to test against, so it's
somewhat pointless for me.
>Is there anyone out there who has smc-ircc working? I suspect it may be
>possible to make it work but something tells me it won't be easy.
A colleague of mine got it to work with minor changes, I'll get you the
details.
>Could you show me your /etc/irda.conf?
.-.-.-.
#irda.conf Version: 1.0
IRDADEV=/dev/ttyS3
DONGLE=none
DISCOVERY=-s
ENABLE=yes # if you don't need to start irattach, set "no"
.-.-.-.
>I'm not really sure which device
>I should irattach to. I got some packets through (looking with irdadump)
>when irattaching to /dev/ircomm0, but after just one or two packets, the
>transmission stopped. I may have to shut down completely and do a cold
>boot because, as you said, the maestro3 module mustn't have been loaded
>at all before the irda stuff.
That's the maestro3-symptom, AFAIR.
cheers,
&rw
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