Continuing my monologue regarding problems using an Actisys 2000U dongle with a Nokia 8210, I have been reading up on the specs and doing some fiddling with the driver. What happens is that a few seconds after going into connected mode with the phone, the irda-usb driver ceases to recieve any incoming frames. At this same point, the phone believes that it has disconnected. By default, the dongle connects to the phone at 115200bps, with 0 extra BOFs. I have tried doctoring the driver so that it misreports its capabilities as max_speed = 9600bps, mtt=10ms, xbofs=12. I have also tried forcing the driver to ignore the settings specified by the IrLAP layer, and to use maximum values for mtt and xbofs when talking to the phone. None of this has any impact on the problem (I think it may increase the time to failure, but this is a subjective assesment). The connection dies irrespective of what the link is doing - when idle, IrCOMM polls the phone every 0.5s or so, and after a few seconds the phone simply fails to give a response. The only difference is that when using 9600bps, the dongle starts to work again once IrCOMM gives up and it returns to disconnected mode. Previously, when using 115200bps, the dongle would not recieve any further packets from any devices until irattach was killed and restarted. I now do not know which component of this setup to suspect, as it seems to work well with my Palm. My reading of this problem is that the phone says something to the dongle which upsets it in a fairly terminal way. There are various possibilities that I need to eliminate: 1. 8210s are fundamentally incompatible with these dongles 2. 8210s are incompatible with Linux IrDA implementation. 3. There is a problem with the irda-usb driver. 4. There is a hardware fault with my particular dongle. I am hoping that it is 4, as this is the easiest to fix, but I will need to try the dongle on a Windows box with the supplied drivers before I can expect them to take it back... I know that people have had 8210s talking to Linux. Is anyone in a position to try an 8210 with one of these dongles? Any assistance would be gratefully received, thanks, Paul _______________________________________________ Linux-IrDA mailing list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pasta.cs.UiT.No/mailman/listinfo/linux-irda
