Alexy,
You can get the irobex tools in the irda-0.9.4 distribution. For some
reason it hasn't been included in the last three releases (.5, .6, .8). I
regularly use irobex_palm3 to send .prc to and from my pilot. It works
great! BTW, when John was describing his problems with getting the Jeteye
dongle to work and I exclaimed it worked great for me, I neglected a very
important detail. I applied the 15-pre3 patch to the 2.2.14 kernel. Here's
what Dag sent out a week ago or so:
-----------------------
Many of the problems you have described would be solved if you upgraded to
the latest IrDA patches (not the GVBC failure!). So please upgrade, if you
want me to help you further. You can find the latest code in
Linux-2.2.15-pre3 (Linux-2.2.14 + pre-patch-2.2.15-3). You'll find it at:
ftp://ftp.<country code>.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.2/
and
ftp://ftp.<country code>.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/alan/2.2.15pre/
----------------------
AFAIK, you no longer need irmanager, irattach is sufficient. This is how I
get the Jeteye dongle activated:
/usr/sbin/irattach /dev/ttyS0 -d esi
Hope this helps,
Scott
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Alexy V. Khrabrov wrote:
>
>
> Greetings, Braver Infrared Warriors!
>
> I just got a Palm V which begs for that infrared
> port in the laptop. I installed irda-utils
> 0.9.8, with 2.2.14-irda1 kernel. I apologize for
> potential redundance of my message, and will
> appreciate any suggestions. I hope a better
> Palm-Linux-IR howto will benefit everybody.
>
> My IR HotSymc doesn't work, and when trying to
> peruse the resources, I found they are in pretty
> disorganized state. The IR-HOWTO is itself very
> tentative. Many things mentioned are not properly
> introduced -- e.g., there's just a single case for
> Thinkpad, which talks about /dev/irnine, without
> explaining what it is and why you have to run
> mknod yourself.
>
> The IrOBEX discussion is mystified by the absence
> of irobex module from irda-utils, nor there's any
> load_misc script mentioned everywhere!
>
> So I have a few notes-questions which I think need
> to be addressed in a better-ordered IR-HOWTO and
> perhaps an additional Linux-Palm-IR-HOWTO.
>
> 1. Installation -- the patch -XXX-irda should be
> applied after applying the kernel -XXX itself,
> right? They are two different patches, with
> -irda adding only irda stuff?
>
> 2. libtool is needed and must be mentioned in the
> HOWTOs.
>
> 3. Kernel options now don't include IrOBEX and
> many other things from IR-HOWTO. How come?
>
> 4. What's the exact order of launching irattach &
> irmanager.
>
> 5. What freedom between ttyS? you have, why do
> you have to irattach one, what's the
> difference with using /dev/irnine.
>
> 6. Who creates /dev/irnine and /dev/ircomm and
> when. What about that /dev/ircomm0 mentioned?
>
> 7. Who loads ircomm-tty and when -- why do you
> have to do modprobe ircomm-tty manually, and
> if so when, why is it not prescribed by docs?
>
> What do you do if irattach amd irmanager are
> running, but HotSync does nothing? What's the way
> to check things?
>
> I apologize again as many of these things must
> have been discussed. What I've learned is that
> IR-HOWTO is really incomplete and hard to
> summarize for Palm use. Only one case is there,
> as compared with many on this list.
>
> I'd appreciate talking with Palm V and Dell
> Inspiron owners in particular. I don't even know
> what IR chip I have, except there's some FIR.
> Here's a few more hardware-setup questions:
>
> 8. What does it mean when findchip remains
> silent?
>
> 9. How do you choose SIR port and IRQ, especially
> in the BIOS config?
>
> 10. How do you choose FIR DMA channel?
>
> All references in the list are made to Palm III
> with IR Enhancements. Palm V is supposed to have
> it in. Anybody got it right?
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Alexy Khrabrov -- www.suffix.com -- Segmentation f%^(&
>
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