On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 10:39:40PM +0000, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> Hi
>
> Don't know if I can get any help with this. I've tried the Debian
> laptop list and they have helped but can't really tell me anything
> about Irda with Debian GNU/Linux. I normally use SuSE Linux but
> thought I'd try Debian 2.2 potato on my other hard disk with a 2.4.3
> kernel which works fine with Reiser FS.
>
> In the interests of getting things working I've tried to compile a
> 2.4.10 and 2.4.18 kernels. Complete waste of effort. Either they
> wouldn't compile or they didn't support Reiser FS. So, back to the
> 2.4.3 kernel once again and recompile so that Irda support is
> included.
>
> After rebooting I see that my PCMCIA drivers are working fine and
> Irmanager starts at boot time. After I've logged in I can do
>
> modprobe irda
> modprobe irtty
> modprobe ircomm
> modprobe ircomm-tty
First of all, have you tried using the irattach program?
Irmanager is obsolete since a while back. You should not even consider using the
irmanager.
I also recomend downloading the latest irda-tools from the webpage, build the source
works fine in debian, as I have on my laptop.
You should use irattach /dev/ttyS0 -s
or irattach /dev/ttyS1 -s
depending on your configuration.
Then you should check, /proc/net/irda/discovery
for a name on the device you have infront of your irport.
and you know that IR is working if you do cat /proc/sys/net/irda/discovery and it
returns 1
this means that the ir driver is actively searching for units within range.
Hope this helps you on the way.
--
/Johan
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