Hi, there is a new Debian package by NOKUBI Takatsugu availabe at http://www.daionet.gr.jp/~knok/debian , which provides the according tools for infrared (IrDA) support. The package is based on libc2.1 and needs an according kernel. I suggest >= 2.3.14 , but couldn't check the package by myself.
For further information on Linux/IrDA see http://www.cs.uit.no/linux-irda/ or my IR-HOWTO http://www.snafu.de/~wehe/index_li.html (though maybe slightly outdated). Cheers :-> werner

