How to get infrared and/or Nokia working

[Christian Jaeger <christian.jaeger@ethlife.ethz.ch>]

Hello

I'd like to connect to my new mobile, a nokia 6100.

Running 2.4.22-ben1 (august 31), debian unstable (in a chroot so I 
can keep my woody installation), on a powerbook g3 lombard.

- apt-get install gnokii
- edit ~/.gnokiirc, set
    port       = /dev/ttyS1
- modprobe irtty
- root@lombi root# xgnokii
Lockfile /var/lock/LCK..ttyS1 is stale. Overriding it..
Couldn't open PHONET device: Kein passender Prozess gefunden
GSM/FBUS init failed!
Speicherzugriffsfehler

root@lombi root# xgnokii
Couldn't open PHONET device: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
GSM/FBUS init failed!
Speicherzugriffsfehler

- minicom
 (change to use ttyS1 and 118000 baud)
=> computer freezes, then after about 30 seconds it just shuts off 
while power led lights up for a moment.


a) anyone succeeded in using a mobile with a mac?
b) anyone succeeded in using gnokii with a mac?
c) what to do against the kernel bug?
d) what are all those other infrared kernel modules for. Any use for 
my purpose?

Christian.