I should have made the following clearer in the original post...

On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 10:59, Michael Ngarimu wrote:
> 
> I discovered the problem was that with RedHat (possibly since 6.2) the
> kudzu hardware detection that occurs at boot discovers the serial
> interface that the IR port was sitting on and loads it using the serial
> driver _ONLY_. Should work fine for SIR (but initially didn't for me
> with RedHat 7.3 but then mysteriously started working again).

The mysterious "wasn't working but now it does" was using SIR 
irattach /dev/ttyS1 -s when the IR port was loaded using the serial
driver/module.

> 
> My solution was to run the IrDA initialisation _before_ running kudzu.
> On my RedHat 7.3 system kudzu runs with priority 05 so I just made IrDA
> priority 4. I may have been nicer to tell kudzu leave port 0x2f8 alone
> but I couldn't find an easy way to do it.

This "my solution" is for using nsc-ircc. I now load using nsc-ircc
exclusively and use the SIR support in that for my Palm Vx.



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