Alexander Hoogerhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> OK, I may be slightly dense here, but I did your trick of using
> setserial to make sure the serial driver left ttyS2 alone, and I did a
> "lsmod | grep serial" as root, which came up empty. The progress is
> that when i now did "ifconfig irda0 up", i only had this in my syslog:
>
> 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
>
> which to me seems right. 

Yup.

> Then I went and did a "echo 1 >
> /proc/net/irda/discovery" and a "tail -f /proc/net/irda/discovery" to
> get the log of what the port finds. This left me with "IrLMP:
> Discovery log:" and no more if I held my Palm Vx or Ericsson t39 in
> front of the IR port. (Yes, 10-15 cm, no flourescent lighting, semi
> dark room, lit candles in a hexagon with a dead chicken in the middle
> and full moon, etc). Nothing more in the discovery log.

That's how it works for me too. tail -f will not work with files in
the /proc file system. Try cating the file in another window while 
leaving the tail -f running, and you'll see..

> Next pointer? :)

cat /proc/net/irda/discovery before and after putting something in
front of the IR port.


Bj�rn
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