Hey alll. I've been bashing head against my notebook for a couple weeks
now so I guess I'll call out for a little help on this one.
I''ve been trying to get printing setup with my Canon BJC-50 printer.
Running RedHat 6.1 with the vanila 2.2.12 kernel and patches -irda[13] , I've
been able to get both the IRTTY and IRPORT drivers to successfully attach and
the discovery log shows my BJC-50. However, when I try something like `cat
test_foo > /dev/irnine` the command hangs indefinitely. There are no error
mesages in the log files and when the command is hung a cat of
/dev/net/irda/ircomm shows it is trying to print to "BJ Printer Port" (or
something similar, I don't have my laptop with me). As a weird side note, if I
irattach first, then start irmanger, irda_device shows the port to be running at
115200bps, however, if I use irmanager to irattach (in /etc/irda/drivers) and
after `cat test_foo > /dev/irnine`, irda_device shows the port has dropped to
9600bps.
I read/re-read/re-re-read the HOWTO, tore it up into little pieces,
rearragned all the letters, and read it again with no success. Am I missing
something really stupid here? Feel free to chastize me on my IRDA incompetence
and inadaquicies. Or is this something others are having problems with?
As a second side note, I have a smc-ircc ver. 2 chip so I tried the driver
and after a little poking around in the code I got it to ID and setup for my
chip at 4Mbps (0x158,0x2f8,3,0 on a Quantex I-14xx/Compal TS30I3 for anyone
intrested). However, the driver never discovers my BJC-50 even though irdadump
shows packet traffic going out. I suspect the IR-diode isn't really
transmitting/receiving though I don't have anything to verify against. This
only works as a module, built into the kernel I get a kernel panic when running
off the text console before much of anything gets booted/probed and a reboot
before anything makes it to screen running a vesa frame buffer. Does anyone
have patches that get this working correctly?
Thanks,
Adrian
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