On 8 Jun 1999, Dag Brattli wrote:
> My Tecra 740CDT is Linux only, so when I upgraded my BIOS, the IrDA port
> got disabled :-( Toshiba didn't have any non-windows programs to enable the
> IrDA port again. I had to reformat my disk and install Windoze just to be
> able to run that little program :-( Anyway, I'll never upgrade my BIOS
> again!
How exactly did you reenable the IrDA port??
I have an 520CDT and the BIOS only shows the builtin serial port, but not
the IrDA port. Linux doesn't detect the IrDA port as a second serial port
either.
I tried to plug in a Windoes HD from another Laptop, and windows detects
the IrDA port (resources are: io 02f8-02ff, irq 10, io 0300-030f, dma 7,
automatic resource assignment is on), so it seems to be enabled. But Linux
doesn't see it.
I tried to use
irmanager
setserial /dev/ttyS1 uart 16550a port 0x02f8 irq 10
irattach /dev/ttyS1
but I get "irattach: tcsetattr Input/output error" messages in the log and
beaming sth with my Palm Pilot doesn't have any effect. The kernel is
2.2.9irda2.
Any ideas to make this work?
>
> The Tecra-740 is using the UIRCC chipset from Sharp (can do 4Mbps), but my
> driver is not working because of some strange things. I blame Toshiba for
> missing documentation, but that doesn't help the driver anything :-(
[BTW:
insmod uircc on the Tecra 520CDT gives:
uircc_open()
uircc_probe()
uircc_probe(), Wrong chip version (<--newline is missing here)
]
Walter
