After RRTFMing (RRTFM = Religious RTFM) man irattach, I was successful
in activating the aforementioned device under Linux and transferring
picture files from a Nokia 7650 to my PC via infrared.
First of all, to my surprise, man irattach explicitly mentions the
KC-180 as a device, which works with the irda-usb device driver.
The following sequence of operations (as root) was successful in
activating IrDA:
1. rmmod ir-usb irda-usb
(according to documentation, ir-usb is incompatible with irda-usb and
just interferes with it).
2. modprobe irda-usb
3. irattach irda0 -s
Then, to monitor:
4. irdadump
And in another window, cd to a directory and do: ircp -r
Then beam your other device and send files to your PC.
The above seems to work in spite of the fact that I see neither ircomm*
nor other IrDA device files in either /dev or /dev/usb.
I didn't test file transfers in the reverse direction.
What I was not successful with was to prevent loading of ir-usb during
boot process (I do not want to physically erase it from /lib/modules).
I tried 'alias ir-usb off' and 'alias ir-usb null' in /etc/modules.conf
(of course, I followed the proper procedure of dropping my own file in
/etc/modutils and running update-modules.modutils, when modifying
modules.conf).
P.S.:
System configuration is as follows.
Debian Unstable with kernel 2.6.8-4, irda-utils-0.9.16-8 and ircp-0.3-2
--- Omer
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