Alexander Hoogerhuis wrote :
> It was said here a few days ago that irport was kinda broken and it
> was safer to stick to irtty for now, and I decided to switch back to
> using irtty (2.4.19pre4-ac2). Suddenly all my problems got back, the
> first one being getting my syslogs full of:
> 
> NETDEV WATCHDOG: irda0: transmit timed out
> irda0: transmit timed out
> NETDEV WATCHDOG: irda0: transmit timed out
> irda0: transmit timed out
> 
> (which I dont get with irport)

        99% of the case, it's an interrupt problem (as described on my
web page). The timeout is 3s, which leave plenty of time for the TTY
layer to do its job.

> and second, and the most annoying which seems to indicate something
> really broken, if I have a scp session going over the IrDA link to my
> phone (with ppp to my machine on the net, usually to get todays catch
> of assorted ac-patches, 2.5 series dj-releases, etc) there i absolute
> NO way that I can run fetchmail (retrieve mail via POP3), as it will
> return within a few seconds with a socket error (-2).

        Have you checked if the patches on my web page make any difference ?

        Jean
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