Ops, forgot one thing:
looked at the output of "ifconfig irda0" and the first line was odd:
irda0 Link encap:IrLAP HWaddr 00:00:00:00
^^^^^^^^^^^
At least last night with the "double loading" of smc-ircc I had
something that looked like a valid MAC address here.
ttfn,
A
Bj�rn Mork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Alexander Hoogerhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Tried it here, and the ifconfig-bit seems to run fine, although the
> > output from smc-ircc's init is printed twice in /var/log/messages:
> > found SMC SuperIO Chip (devid=0x0a rev=00 base=0x00e0): FDC37N971
> > SMC IrDA Controller found
> > IrCC version 2.0, firport 0x100, sirport 0x3e8 dma=2, irq=3
> > found SMC SuperIO Chip (devid=0x0a rev=00 base=0x00e0): FDC37N971
> > SMC IrDA Controller found
> > IrCC version 2.0, firport 0x100, sirport 0x3e8 dma=2, irq=3
> > IrDA: Registered device irda0
> >
> > And if I now type pppd /dev/ircomm0 the machine freezes instantly...
> >
> > FYI I run 2.4.17 with Robert Loves preempt-patch, and apart from that
> > it is a stock RedHat 7.2 system.
> >
> > Any pointers?
>
> Ugh, I just saw the same yesterday when I tricked a colleague to try
> it ;-) Didn't make the connection then, but I think I do now...
>
> The thing that happens is that your serial driver probably have found
> and taken control over /dev/ttyS2 (which really is the IrDA port). This
> causes smc-ircc to fail the first time, but succeed the second time
> you (or the system) try to load it. So you get a double set of
> messages.
>
> This happened without my patch too, but I introduced an ugly bug in
> ircc_close so it became a bit more fatal than it should be. Impressive
> given the low number of changed lines, eh? Which proves that Jean was
> perfectly right not to accept any patch without proper testing. New
> version attached.
>
> But you should really run 'setserial /dev/ttyS2 uart none' before
> loading smc-ircc in any case. I don't know too much about about
> RedHat, but there is probably some startup script where such things
> should be. In Debian you would put it in /etc/serial.conf.
>
>
> Bj�rn
>
>
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