Jean Tourrilhes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> No, I'm asking about the dongle auto-loading feature. The
> Howto still says that you need to load dongle by hand (chapter 5.3)
> and don't mention this feature.
> Moreover, the dongle id number seems to be hardcoded in
> irattach, but I don't know how stable are those numbers...
Hmm, I did this trick, so that they kernel wouldn't need to know anything
about dongles. The only thing that needs to be hardcoded, is that each
dongle needs to know its number, espesially if compiled into the
kernel. This is the same way that compressors etc work in the kernel. In
2.2 the kernel needed to know the name of the dongle, which was not a good
thing.
> The trouble is that you change things faster than the Howto
> can absobe them, and documentation is critical for idiots. One of
> these day, you should read the Howto and send a diff to Werner. He is
> doing a good job but can't know all the things that are in your head.
That is a very good suggestion! I'll see what I can do about it!
> > PS. I gave up installing IrDA support at the machine my wife uses at
> > work. I gave her a HP Jornada 680 as a birthday present, but I never got
> > IrDA working with it using Win95. I guess it's not idiot proof either ;-)
>
> I've talk to a friend who is kind of knowledgeable about
> WinCE. He told me that Win95 <-> WinCE won't work, because there is
> some incompatibility down the line. You need to use Win98, and with
> Win98 it works like a charm.
Not a problem for me, but for my wife. They are using Win95 at the place
she work, and they don't want to upgrade their machine (with all the
problems that way bring), just because IrDA won't work. Win95 is also so
unstable, that I really don't want to mess more with it. I might get IrDA
working, but then some other thing might brake. You suddenly get these
exceptions in some dll you have never heard about before, and then you have
to reinstall the whole system. Think I'll wait until they decide to upgrade
their system.
-- Dag
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