IR on a pismo
Hey All,
I've now gotting printing working on my pismo. I gave up trying to
connect the printer to my USB port, apsfilter hooked it up in 5
minutes using Samba of my windows box.
Now, to tackle IR. I have a Palm III and a serial cradle that doesn't
do me squat for good with my USB-only laptop (except that it's the
Palm's only recharge station). I suppose I could get the serial -> USB
convertor, but why should I? I mean that's what the IR port is for,
isn't it?
I found a number of useful WWW pages detailing how to get Palm ->
laptop IR working for linux on apple laptops, but I haven't
succeeded.
I've tried running jpilot and PilotManager but neither can hotsync
over IR.
I first tried to build IR statically into the kernel thinking it was a
module issue, but this fails because of a dependancy on a
module-defined variable, so I'm forced to run IR as a module.
My frustration is that I have no way of testing the IR link under
linux. I know it works under MacOS, hotsyncing is no problem
there. But I have no other IR devices. I tried irdump but never got
any output.
Here's what syslog tells me:
irattach /dev/irda:
May 24 15:45:03 amadeus kernel: irda_setup timed out on 1st byte
May 24 15:45:03 amadeus kernel: irda_setup timed out on 1st byte
May 24 15:45:03 amadeus kernel: irda_init()
May 24 15:45:03 amadeus kernel: irlmp_init()
May 24 15:45:03 amadeus kernel: IrDA: Registered device irda0
May 24 15:45:04 amadeus kernel: irlmp_register_client_R17f18bfb()
May 24 15:45:04 amadeus kernel: irtty_net_open()
May 24 15:45:04 amadeus kernel: irlap_change_speed(), setting speed to 9600
May 24 15:45:04 amadeus irattach: Starting device irda0
May 24 15:45:04 amadeus irattach: executing: 'echo amadeus > /proc/sys/net/irda/devname'
May 24 15:46:45 amadeus kernel: IrCOMM protocol (Dag Brattli)
jpilot -> sync:
May 24 15:46:46 amadeus kernel: ircomm_tty_attach_cable()
May 24 15:46:46 amadeus kernel: ircomm_tty_ias_register()
May 24 15:46:46 amadeus kernel: irlmp_register_client_R17f18bfb()
May 24 15:47:03 amadeus identd[13511]: started
May 24 15:47:32 amadeus kernel: ircomm_tty_close()
May 24 15:47:32 amadeus kernel: ircomm_tty_shutdown()
May 24 15:47:32 amadeus kernel: ircomm_tty_detach_cable()
May 24 15:47:32 amadeus kernel: ircomm_close()
My pilot times out eventually and jpilot just sits and spins. Any
advice on how to go about debugging this would be grately appreciated.
jas.
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