RE: IRda

[Pedro Quaresma de Almeida <pedro@mat.uc.pt>]

Brooks R. Robinson writes:
 > | I am trying to use my InfraRed port in my Debian box (HP Omnibook Xe3,
 > | kernel 2.4.4) but without any sucess:
 > |
 > | It seems that the port it is not recognized by the system.
 > 
 > Okay, I'll go for the standard questions...
 > 
 > 1) Do you have the IR enabled in the BIOS?

I think so (I will verify that anyway after sending this message), I
have a dual machine Linux/Win32 and I am almost shure that I already
used the IrDA port under Win32. 

 > 2) Do you have IrDA (infrared) support compiled/modules into/for your
 > kernel?
 > 

I read the "Linux Infrared HOWTO" and I've tried to follow it:

pcporta16:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.4# make xconfig &

and then:

IrDA support
 IrDA subsystem support             y
 irLAN protocol                     y
 irNet protocol                     y
 Ultra protocol                     y
 IrDA protocol options              y
 Cache last LSAP                    y
 Debug Information                  y

IrDA Device drivers
 SIR
 IrTTY                              y
 IrPORT                             y
 FIR   
 SMC IrCC                           y

But, it seems that the IrDA device it is there

pcporta16:~# dmesg | grep tty
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1: LSR safety check engaged!
ttyS1: LSR safety check engaged!


pcporta16:~# cat /proc/net/irda/discovery 
IrLMP: Discovery log:


pcporta16:~# cat /proc/devices 
Character devices:
  1 mem
  2 pty
  3 ttyp
  4 ttyS
  5 cua
  6 lp
  7 vcs
 10 misc
 13 input
 14 sound
 29 fb
 36 netlink
 81 video_capture
108 ppp
128 ptm
136 pts
162 raw
180 usb
254 pcmcia

Block devices:
  2 fd
  3 ide0
 22 ide1

...

Thanks.

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Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
e-mail: pedro@mat.uc.pt