Hello, I have IBM Thinkpad a22m, I would like to dial out using my Nokia 6210 phone. I tried it on this notebook with freebsd, it worked with almost no problems. Since the IRDA support is much different, I have really trouble making it work under Debian GNU/Linux. I deleted freebsd because of some hardware problems and since there are experimental packages for KDE 3.0, I like debian here.
So, infraport is enabled in the BIOS, findchip reports this:
NSC,PC87338,11.2,0x2e,0x2f8,0x2f8,3,3,1,0,1
I have latest testing 2.4.18 kernel (from woody) and:
ii irda-common 0.9.14-17 IrDA management utilities
ii irda-tools 0.9.14-17 IrDA handling tools
this is the irda0 part of ifconfig:
irda0 Link encap:IrLAP HWaddr 7c:ab:cb:4e
UP RUNNING NOARP MTU:2048 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:8
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:30 (30.0 b)
modules:
jurajbug:/home/juraj# lsmod|grep ir
ircomm-tty 30112 0 (autoclean)
ircomm 13180 0 [ircomm-tty]
irtty 7296 2 (autoclean)
irda 137996 1 (autoclean) [ircomm-tty ircomm irtty]
I've read the Infrared-HOWTO, etc. I'm unable to load nsc-ircc.o module, I don't
even know if I need it. On freebsd, I just used /dev/ttyS1. My kernel
reports it has found ttyS1 port:
[root@idoru juraj]# dmesg|grep tty
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
but playing with irattach (irattach /dev/ttyS1 -s 1, irattach irda0 -s 1,
irattach nsc-ircc -s 1) yields to no results.
jurajbug:/home/juraj# cat /proc/net/irda/discovery
IrLMP: Discovery log:
(i.e. discovery log is always empty).
My question is -- if some of you have tried this (to any ,,serial''
device). What is the proper syntax of irattach (what do I attach
where)? I tried communicating through /dev/ircomm0 and /dev/ttyS1 ports
using minicom. No results. If I'm able to send some AT command, I will
figure out the rest.
Thank you,
Juraj.
P.S.: Just switched from Mandrake and FreeBSD to Debian, it has the
nicest way of building the kernel. Wow!
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