Hi,
I've just ordered myself a Dell Inspiron 4000, so I should
be able to tell you how to set up IrDA on a week or so.
-- Dag
On Sun, 15 Apr 2001 20:47:22 -0000, Henrico Witvliet wrote:
> I've tried to get SIR working on my laptop, but it seems I missed something.
> In the BIOS is disabled the (real) serial port, and enabled SIR on com4
> (ttyS3). Trying Windows showed that the hardware is working.
>
> Using linux (mandrake 7.2, 2.2.17-21mdk) I put the aliases in modules.conf.
> "irattach /dev/ttyS3 -s" works (loads modules and ifconfig shows irda0).
> Doing something with /dev/ircomm3 (such as pilot-xfer -p /dev/ircomm3 -l)
> will also load the ircomm modules.
>
> The problem is that the ir-port remains inactive. The irmonitor program on
> my palm shows no activity from the laptop. Does anyone has any suggestions
> on what I might try next? Using a new kernel is something I would rather
> avoid, since everything else is working nicely.
>
> Henrico Witvliet
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