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Re: Palm Sync on a Pismo (irda)



On  13 Mar, this message from Michel Dänzer echoed through cyberspace:
> On Die, 2002-03-12 at 19:51, Jens Schmalzing wrote:
>> 
>> Michel Dänzer writes:
>> 
>> > [...] after that it works pretty reliably for me.
>> 
>> Should this apply to mobile phones as well?

Yes.

>>  With the fiddling you
>> describe, my Nokia 6210 shows up in /proc/net/irda/discovery and
>> irdaping works reliably, but neither a terminal program (such as
>> minicom) nor a phone utility (like gnokii or gsmutils) can even detect
>> the phone.

The 6210 includes a real modem (unlike the 61x0 phones), so you can
attack it with a terminal emulation (I've got PPP running across OK).
gnokii is of no use.

> If you have set up the devices correctly - irattach to /dev/ttyS1, apps
> use /dev/ircomm0 - I suspect it uses different parts of the IrDA stack
> which are still broken.

No, the 6210 uses IRCCOMM which works. Let me know if you're not getting
along setting it up; my TiBook is crashed so I can't look up my setup
right now :-(

Cheers

Michel

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