Hi!
> Ouch! None of the drivers seem to work! So, did some reading up of the
> documentation available. IBM's marketing propoganda claims the ThinkPads
> have real nice IR support. Apparently the IBM31T1100 chip is the one I've
> got, which seems to be supported by the PC87108 driver. Reports from other
> ThinkPad users indicate there is a slightly differing version of this
> chip present leading to trouble in FIR modes, but that SIR works
> fine.
That was me.
> The PC87108 driver looked most promising (success reported by other
> ThinkPad users), but loading it up gives a message, "invalid chip version
> ff". I tried hacking out this error detection from
> drivers/net/irda/pc87108.c and the module then loads, but of course
> crashes.
Strange, for me on thinkpad 560X pc87108 driver loads fine but reports
unsupported dongle and does not work.
> HmMmM. irattach /dev/ttyS0 appears to work, just giving me the version
> info but nothing else. Stuff piped to these devices goes nowhere, my cute
> little printer just quietly sits there. I try loading up other IrDA
> modules with no luck.
>
> Found a guy who claims the ThinkPad 701 uses /dev/cua1 for IrDA.
>
> ???
>
> Argh, so I need 87338 or 87306 support, or to buy a supported dongle
> (:<) ?!?
Or to run irattach on /dev/XXX and be happy. Be sure to setserial
/dev/XXX port 0xff00 to avoid resource conflict.
Pavel
--
The best software in life is free (not shareware)! Pavel
GCM d? s-: !g p?:+ au- a--@ w+ v- C++@ UL+++ L++ N++ E++ W--- M- Y- R+
