As a follow up to my general Palm-Linux posting,
here's one first more detailed question.
What device do you use -- /dev/ttyS? or
/dev/irnine or /dev/ircomm?
Namely, IR-HOWTO states a case by Harald Milz/SuSE
connecting Palm III to a Thinkpad. He manually
creates mknod /dev/irnine. This step is never
explained in other docs anywhere. Many docs
mention /dev/ircomm. or /dev/ircomm0. Where do
these come from?
Here's what he says:
Add a device file for the redirected IR device: mknod /dev/irnine c 161 0 , see also
/proc/tty/drivers.
What does have
irattach /dev/ttyS?
to do with this new /dev/irnine beast?
Now, dmesg mentions a UART on tty03. How is
*that* related to /dev/ttyS0 .. /dev/ttyS3?
Milz still does irattach /dev/ttyS0, saying that
this will disable a regular serial port, and makes
a link /dev/pilot --> /dev/irnine. Why both, and
why can't one use /dev/ttyS3 say?
My only desire is to use pilot-xfer to HotSync
over IR, which uses /dev/pilot by default. So if
it points at /dev/irnine, why irattach /dev/ttyS0?
I'd really appreciate a little insight into this
tty bonanza. I installed the latest 2.2.14 +
pre-patch-2.2.15-4 and still my HotSync does nil.
I also tried to download the latest Obex, but its
./autogen.sh fails with the latest libtool-1.3.4!
--
Cheers,
Alexy Khrabrov -- www.suffix.com -- Segmentation f%^(&
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