In Re: [Linux-IrDA] how to get started, on Tue, 09 Apr 2002 02:26,
Johan Romin wrote:
> First of all, you see that irda0 gets registerd by the kernel
> (dmesg|grep Ir)
$ dmesg|grep Ir
IrDA: Registered device irda0
Detected Parameters Irq=10 BaseAddress=0xe800 ComAddress=0xecb8
YES
> since you want to use IrComm, that is for palm
> pilot sync you must have the ircomm modules loaded.. check that
> with lsmod
777 root@psybernet:/home/walter (10:23:41)
# lsmod|grep Ir
778 root@psybernet:/home/walter (10:24:11)
# lsmod|grep ir
irtty 6000 2 (autoclean)
irda 93568 1 (autoclean) [irtty]
I take that as NO
Where to with that now I have never loaded a module. Do I have the
module? (see my previous message for big listing)?
> also run ifconfig and see that irda0 is up so to say, and you
# ifconfig
irda0 Link encap:IrLAP HWaddr 72:25:88:27
UP RUNNING NOARP MTU:2048 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:8
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:1798 (1.7 Kb)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:525 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:525 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:64575 (63.0 Kb) TX bytes:64575 (63.0 Kb)
I am not sure what this means. It is UP RUNNING but there are
errors too.
> should also have /dev/ircomm0
782 root@psybernet:/dev (10:30:24)
# ls|grep ir
783 root@psybernet:/dev (10:30:37)
#
NO - I cant "locate" ircomm0 on the system at all.
> if all the above is correct redirect your palm sync program to
> use /dev/ircomm0, and it should work. if your palm is correctly
> configured etc. ;))
I'm looking forward to that! Yes the Palm worked with IR on my old
win laptop.
> also you can check /proc/sys/net/irda/discovery to see if it
> contains a line with some information about your palm pilot.
788 root@psybernet:/proc/sys/net/irda (10:34:24)
# less discovery
and there is only one line in all in the file, has the chr 1 in it.
???
> hope this gives you some hints.
Sure does! Leaves me with more to explore... and with some key
words to find in the howtos etc.
Any more help appreciated though!
Thanks for all that.
Walter.
--
Walter Logeman
Psychotherapist
http://www.psybernet.co.nz
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