Hi out there,

I have an ASUS L7300 laptop

http://www.mat.univie.ac.at/~gerald/laptop/asus.html

and I want to get a network connection between two laptops via irda running. I use 
RedHat 6.1 with a
2.2.13
(no irda patches yet).

According to the Win98 driver I have a winbond controller sitting at /dev/ttyS1.

First of all the IR port is not detected correctely by the kernel. setserial 
/dev/ttyS1 says
"/dev/ttyS1,
UART: 8250, Port: 0x02f8, IRQ: 3" rather than "UART: 16550A" (according to a BIOS 
dump).
Is this something I should worry about?

Next I tried to use the W83977AF module, which did not work. I had a look at the 
kernel source and
noticed that
the irq/io stuff is hardcoded into the module. I rewrote the source so that they can 
be set via
paramters (I will
mail the patch to this list once I've installed the latest irda patch). Still it did 
not work. After
a little debugging I found
out that the module gives up at the "version check". I uncommented the code which 
checks for the
version of the
controller and now the module loads fine. In addition, I get an irda0 interface which 
I can
configure via ifconfig.

Any suggestions? How can I test it without a second laptop/ir printer/phone. I tried 
to use the
remote control
of my stereo and read some bytes from the device, but to no avail.

Any help is appreciated,
Gerald


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