Brooks R. Robinson writes: > | I am trying to use my InfraRed port in my Debian box (HP Omnibook Xe3, > | kernel 2.4.4) but without any sucess: > | > | It seems that the port it is not recognized by the system. > > Okay, I'll go for the standard questions... > > 1) Do you have the IR enabled in the BIOS?
I think so (I will verify that anyway after sending this message), I have a dual machine Linux/Win32 and I am almost shure that I already used the IrDA port under Win32. > 2) Do you have IrDA (infrared) support compiled/modules into/for your > kernel? > I read the "Linux Infrared HOWTO" and I've tried to follow it: pcporta16:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.4# make xconfig & and then: IrDA support IrDA subsystem support y irLAN protocol y irNet protocol y Ultra protocol y IrDA protocol options y Cache last LSAP y Debug Information y IrDA Device drivers SIR IrTTY y IrPORT y FIR SMC IrCC y But, it seems that the IrDA device it is there pcporta16:~# dmesg | grep tty ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS1: LSR safety check engaged! ttyS1: LSR safety check engaged! pcporta16:~# cat /proc/net/irda/discovery IrLMP: Discovery log: pcporta16:~# cat /proc/devices Character devices: 1 mem 2 pty 3 ttyp 4 ttyS 5 cua 6 lp 7 vcs 10 misc 13 input 14 sound 29 fb 36 netlink 81 video_capture 108 ppp 128 ptm 136 pts 162 raw 180 usb 254 pcmcia Block devices: 2 fd 3 ide0 22 ide1 ... Thanks. -- Pedro Quaresma de Almeida e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]