Please ignore my previous posting. I had forgotten that I'd inserted a netcard
which decided to conflict IRQ-wise with my IR-port. Reading the FAQ-part of the
otherwise outdated HOWTO yielded a clue.
I'll go think up a real nasty punishment for myself for not thinking/reading
that before asking.
Sorry I took your time and bandwidth
--thomas
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, you wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I have suddenly started getting some wierd messages like the one included in
> the subject in my syslog when starting irattach.
>
> The setup used to work for me (after lots of help from different guys),
> but.....anyways. I tried to upgrade to the latest IrDA-patches but with the
> same result.
>
> My config is linux-2.2.13 w. patch-2.2.13-irda12 on an IBM ThinkPad 390. I use
> irattach from irda-utils 0.9.5.
>
> My IrDA-port is the first serial port and is recognized upon bootup:
>
> ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
> ttyS02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
>
> I use:
>
> irattach /dev/ttyS0 -s 1
>
> Which in /var/adm/messages yields:
>
> Dec 21 15:30:33 laptoy irattach: Serial connection established.
>
> and in /var/adm/syslog yields:
>
> Dec 21 15:30:33 laptoy irattach: tcsetattr: Input/output error
>
> I am not sure if this is of any help, but I tired (sucessfully) from home. Then
> I left it be for a while (I am not aware of having done anything mysterious
> since it worked) and was yesterday to go on a rather long trip by train. Hence
> I tried to connect using my Ericsson SH888 - with no luck. Well arrived at an
> ethernet jack, I downloaded the latest IrDA-patch, recompiled and decided to go
> from there. Still no luck. I have been looking around the mailing list, and it
> seems that others have experienced the same problems when using different
> "dongles". However I did not find any explanation on what was the problem or
> what would be the cure.
>
> I'll be on the road quite a lot for the rest of this month and most of the next
> month, so I'd prefer to have it running. Thus *any* help , hints or clues will
> be most apprecuated.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> --
> Mange hilsner / Sincerely
>
> -------------------------------------------
> Thomas Heide Clausen
> Civilingeni�r i Datateknik (cand.polyt)
> M.Sc in Computer Engineering
>
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