Greetings, Braver Infrared Warriors!
I just got a Palm V which begs for that infrared
port in the laptop. I installed irda-utils
0.9.8, with 2.2.14-irda1 kernel. I apologize for
potential redundance of my message, and will
appreciate any suggestions. I hope a better
Palm-Linux-IR howto will benefit everybody.
My IR HotSymc doesn't work, and when trying to
peruse the resources, I found they are in pretty
disorganized state. The IR-HOWTO is itself very
tentative. Many things mentioned are not properly
introduced -- e.g., there's just a single case for
Thinkpad, which talks about /dev/irnine, without
explaining what it is and why you have to run
mknod yourself.
The IrOBEX discussion is mystified by the absence
of irobex module from irda-utils, nor there's any
load_misc script mentioned everywhere!
So I have a few notes-questions which I think need
to be addressed in a better-ordered IR-HOWTO and
perhaps an additional Linux-Palm-IR-HOWTO.
1. Installation -- the patch -XXX-irda should be
applied after applying the kernel -XXX itself,
right? They are two different patches, with
-irda adding only irda stuff?
2. libtool is needed and must be mentioned in the
HOWTOs.
3. Kernel options now don't include IrOBEX and
many other things from IR-HOWTO. How come?
4. What's the exact order of launching irattach &
irmanager.
5. What freedom between ttyS? you have, why do
you have to irattach one, what's the
difference with using /dev/irnine.
6. Who creates /dev/irnine and /dev/ircomm and
when. What about that /dev/ircomm0 mentioned?
7. Who loads ircomm-tty and when -- why do you
have to do modprobe ircomm-tty manually, and
if so when, why is it not prescribed by docs?
What do you do if irattach amd irmanager are
running, but HotSync does nothing? What's the way
to check things?
I apologize again as many of these things must
have been discussed. What I've learned is that
IR-HOWTO is really incomplete and hard to
summarize for Palm use. Only one case is there,
as compared with many on this list.
I'd appreciate talking with Palm V and Dell
Inspiron owners in particular. I don't even know
what IR chip I have, except there's some FIR.
Here's a few more hardware-setup questions:
8. What does it mean when findchip remains
silent?
9. How do you choose SIR port and IRQ, especially
in the BIOS config?
10. How do you choose FIR DMA channel?
All references in the list are made to Palm III
with IR Enhancements. Palm V is supposed to have
it in. Anybody got it right?
--
Cheers,
Alexy Khrabrov -- www.suffix.com -- Segmentation f%^(&
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