Itai Nahshon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I just joined this mailing list after I failed to find answers
> in the archives and the FAQ.
I think you joined the wrong list! [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not active
anymore (I have to send a new mail to the sysadmin), so you should go to
the Linux-IrDA web-page where you can find a link to the correct list, and
instructions on how to subscribe (All mails to the old list bounces to me,
so I just forwarded your mail to the correct list)
> I have borrowed a ThinkPad 760EL from work and trying Linux
> IrDA on it. Using IrTTY (I guess just at 9600 Baud). Mostly
No, IrDA will negotiate the speed to something higher than 9600. You can
look at /proc/net/irda/irlap to see what speed the current link is using.
> testing against a Palm IIIx. Once that I get more confident,
> I have a Belkin SmartBeam dongle which I want to try and
> make it work too.
>
> I'm using RedHat 6.0 with most of the updates from RedHat.
>
> I tried irda-utils 0.92 and 0.93-pre8. The main stuff (irattach,
> irmanager) compile and work but with few exceptions, I cannot
> compile things in the sub-directories. That's worse in 0.93-pre8
> where automake and autoconf fail. Any hints on how to compile
> these things (or are there new updates that I could not find?).
I'm working on a new release. The CVS server got infected by a worm through
the IMAP port, so I had to kill (reformat) it :-( I have a copy so I'll try
to put out a new release as soon as possible (a week?)
> I did not have problems with discovery. I could even make
> irobex_palm3 to copy files from/to the palm IIIx. Then I decided
> to actually hot-sync using IRdA. I installed the eval version of
> irlink 1.2 (from IsComplete) and I could hot sync against kpilot
Shouldn't you use the IrDA patch from Palm instead!?
> (with a symbolic link /dev/pilot -> irnine). That was on linux
> 2.2.11 patched with one of Alan's latest fixes. It worked, but
> less than perfect. Then I tried to upgrade the kernel to 2.1.12 with
> the 2.1.12-irda1 patch (created the new ircomm devices and changed
> the sym lyng /dev/pilot -> ircomm0) and I could not hot-sync. I tried
> to back to vanilla 2.1.12 and to 2.1.11+2.2.12-forlinus+2.1.12-irda1
> and still hot-sync does not work. I believe that I'm doing something
> wrong but cannot find out what.o
Install Linux-2.2.12 and apply the latest 2.2.12-irda1 patch. And then your
ircomm0 should look something like this:
dagbnb ~/linux/irda-utils/ > ll /dev/ir*
crw------- 1 dagb 161, 0 Aug 31 21:42 /dev/ircomm0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 161, 1 Jun 18 13:44 /dev/ircomm1
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 161, 16 Jun 18 13:44 /dev/irlpt0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 161, 17 Jun 18 13:44 /dev/irlpt1
... and /etc/conf.modules
# IrDA
alias tty-ldisc-11 irtty
alias char-major-161 ircomm-tty
Please be aware of the - instead of the _ for ircomm-tty!!
> Technical question about 2.2.12-irda1: There are 32 ircomm devices.
> (I understand that 16 emulate ttys and 16 emulate printer devices).
> How is matching between connection and device done? Will a new
> connection be made to the first available ircomm device or is these
> something more complex in there? (is it possible to run multiple
> services on multiple ircomm devices and make a smart decision on
> which service will be used for some device?).
You can have multiple IrCOMM connections, but there is no AI there yet ;-)
The IrCOMM instance (0-15) will just try to connect to the first IrCOMM
device it finds. If you open 3 ircomm devices, you can imagine you have
three serial cables running around the room trying to attach to any serial
device they can find ;-)
Anyway, I have spent the time trying to get IrCOMM stable, so things like
this will have to wait.
> My last question for today? Is anyone looking at implementing
> IrTran-P ?
I have started, but don't hold your breath while waiting ;-)
-- Dag
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