I have Inspiron 3500!!!! Wow...nice slow machine. But my SIR works after many nights of short sleep. All the howtos seem either out of date or does not fit all situations.
I use kernel 2.4.10-ac3. I built everything in modulus if possible. The /etc/modulus.conf says: pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start alias usb-interface usb-uhci alias sound-slot-0 nm256 alias char-major-161 ircomm-tty alias ppp0 off alias char-major-108 ppp_generic alias /dev/ppp ppp_generic alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp_async alias tty-ldisc-14 ppp_synctty alias ppp0 ppp_generic alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate I have to setup the SIR in BIOS. Don't use automatic settings. Specify the IRQ/PORT. You will need to remember that settings. When boots, it will say sth like: Serial..... ttyS? Irq ... Port... ttyS? Irq ... Port... One of them is for the SIR. Edit /etc/sysconfig/irda (redhat or mandrake). What you do next is to do a service irda start. It basically starts the irattach with irattach /dev/ttyS? -s. If you run ifconfig, you should see irda0 up. I use irda to talk to my Visor Edge. I made a like from /dev/ircomm0 to /dev/pilot. The polit-link works. BUT IT IS VERY SLOW!!!! Although it says setting speed 115200. But the throughput is like <1kB/sec. The same SIR works much faster in WindowsXP. Well...not perfect, but it is working. I managed to get PPP going between my latop and palm too. Tried ptelnet...but it is too slow. Anyway...good luck. --- Massimo Scabbia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > laptop swap and IrDA problem as usual!!! :-((( > > Well, my new laptop is a Dell Inspiron 8100... Soooooooo cool :-))) > > But... IrDA not work. Well, it work under Windows 2000, so the port is ok > and stuff, but I'm unable to make the slow SIR driver working under Linux > (never think to try the FIR driver :-((((((((((( ) > > Is the serial driver related with the IrDA chipset of my notebook? On this > machine, Findchip report nothing (I do "findchip -v" and the system reply > nothing, just a blank line). > > To be honest, if I irattach /dev/ttyS1 -s the system load the device Irda0, > but the discovery name of this device is always Dell (the name of my > computer). I can use ifconfig Irda0 up or down, I can Ping the device Irda0 > and also do a Irdadump, but I don't know what I ping :-(((((( > > Ircomm not load, also if I had put the correct stement on Modules.conf and > stuff. Obviously my cell phone is in front of the IrDA dongle as usual. > > Irda-Utils are 0.9.14 precompiled with my Mandrake 8.1 distro and kernel is > default kernel with all the IrDA stuff modularized... > > Any idea? > > > Massimo > > > PS: whats the last irda-utils? On soundforge there is still 0.9.13. The site > seems very outdated and the the new HOWTO at mobilix.org not point at any > new location. > > About the new HOWTO: I think it is pretty mean, very obviously, no hint at > all! I used to prefer the old documents. > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-IrDA mailing list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.pasta.cs.UiT.No/mailman/listinfo/linux-irda __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Linux-IrDA mailing list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pasta.cs.UiT.No/mailman/listinfo/linux-irda
