Hi. I'm very new to IR but not new to Linux. I'm trying to make my IBM Thinkpad 770 talk to my shiny new Palm V. I have never attempted to use my laptop's IR port before. I've turned the IR port on in windows, compiled kernel-2.2.15pre7 (fully modularized ir stuff) and irda-utils-0.9.10, added the following to my /etc/conf.modules: alias tty-ldisc-11 irtty alias char-major-161 ircomm-tty alias irda-dongle-0 tekram alias irda-dongle-1 esi alias irda-dongle-2 actisys alias irda-dongle-3 actisys alias irda-dongle-4 girbil alias irda-dongle-5 litelink alias irda-dongle-6 airport alias irda-dongle-7 old_belkin options nsc-ircc dongle_id=0x09 alias irda0 nsc-ircc and try to run the irattach command for the Thinkpad 770 described in irda-utils-0.9.10/irattach/README: irattach irda0 -s 1 The module nsc-ircc fails to load, however. In /var/log/messages, I see the following: Feb 14 01:08:55 localhost irattach: executing: '/sbin/modprobe irda0' Feb 14 01:08:55 localhost kernel: IrDA (tm) Protocols for Linux-2.2 (Dag Brattli) Feb 14 01:08:55 localhost kernel: nsc-ircc, Wrong chip version 16 Feb 14 01:08:55 localhost irattach: + /lib/modules/2.2.15pre7/misc/nsc-ircc.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Feb 14 01:08:55 localhost irattach: + /lib/modules/2.2.15pre7/misc/nsc-ircc.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.15pre7/misc/nsc-ircc.o failed Feb 14 01:08:55 localhost irattach: + /lib/modules/2.2.15pre7/misc/nsc-ircc.o: insmod irda0 failed Feb 14 01:08:55 localhost irattach: Trying to load module irda0 exited with status 255 Feb 14 01:08:55 localhost irattach: executing: 'echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/irda/discovery' Feb 14 01:08:55 localhost irattach: Setting discovery to 1 exited with status 1 Feb 14 01:08:55 localhost irattach: Starting device irda0 Feb 14 01:08:55 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-23 Hmm. The wrong chip version 16 seems to be the trouble. Hmm. findchip says: NSC,PC87338,11.3,0x2e,0x3f8,0x3f8,4,3,1,0,1 Hmm. That's as far as I've gotten. Can anyone suggest where I may be going wrong? Is there more comprehensive user documentation available? What's the different between FIR and SIR? What user utilities are recommended for managing the laptop<-> palm connection? I've seen references for everything from sync-plan to PalmManager to pilot-xfer to ir-obex. - donald _______________________________________________ Linux-IrDA mailing list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www4.pasta.cs.UiT.No/mailman/listinfo/linux-irda
