Re: [iPAQ] IRDA on the IPAQ

On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Rajesh Krishna Balan wrote:
> Hi,
Hello!

> does anyone know how to get IRDA working on the IPAQ??
No.

> I've read on the archives that SIR works but how in particular?
Good question!

> I've loaded the irda.o (recompiled to remove the dma references), irtty.o,
> irlan.o, sa1100_ir.o, done the irattach and everything. Everything loads
> and looks fine *except* that i can't get any real IR packets to be emitted
> or received from the IR receiver.
I do not know if sa1100_ir.o has to be used at all. If you look at "dmesg" you
will see that the standard iPaq serial driver already recognises a third serial
port ttyS2 and sais "ttyS2 using IrDA".
This means to me either the IrDA hardware driver is included in the serial
driver and sa1100_ir.o must not be used or it just means that ttyS2 is using
the IrDA port which would mean that one has to use irattach.
But either method does not work at all..
I have tried the same like you described and ended up that running "irmanager
-d1" stopped my serial console ;)

> Also, there is no /proc/sys tree to turn on irda discovery.
Yep. The irmanager process complains about it.
Very strange.
The most strange thing is that I can use the FIR port on my x86 notebook with
the same kernel and driver version without any of those problems.

If I have time again I will try to investigate this further.

> Rajesh
CU
  nils faerber

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