Re: How to get infrared and/or Nokia working

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

Hello Julien

Thanks again for your help. But I still haven't succeeded. (Linux 
seems to confirm an old prejudice that it's immature and difficult to 
use.)

At 12:42 Uhr +0100 26.10.2003, Julien BLACHE wrote:
> irattach must be running ; it's automatically started if you have
> irda-common installed.

Thanks. I wasn't even aware that I need this package.

> Check that it's running, and you should at
> least see the computer sending discovery messages (you must of course
> run irdadump as root) :
>
> 11:30:12.270024 xid:cmd 83d208ff > ffffffff S=6 s=0 (14)
> 11:30:12.360009 xid:cmd 83d208ff > ffffffff S=6 s=1 (14)
> 11:30:12.450007 xid:cmd 83d208ff > ffffffff S=6 s=2 (14)

I've configured irda-common to
- serial port (vs. native)
- driver: none (since none matched what I found in the kernel config)
- device: /dev/ircomm0

It starts irattach, and a running irdadump outputs exactly *one* of 
the above lines. /etc/init.d/irda restarts a new instance of 
irattach. /etc/init.d/irda stop does not terminate them. kill does 
neither. kill -9 finally does. /etc/init.d/irda start does make 
irdadump issue one line again.

I've rebooted my laptop and tried again (without any sleep cycle 
inbetween), no joy.

Christian.