"Alexy V. Khrabrov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> o Yes I think Inspiron 7000 is using the SMC chipset. But be prepared to do
> o some development. Don't use it if you don't mean it ;-)
>
> I'd love to, if you help!
>
> o Have you tried irda-utils-0.9.9/findchip?
>
> Silence of the lambs.
If findchip cannot find your chip, then there is no way the SMC driver is
going to find it!
> o alias tty-ldisc-11 irtty
> o alias char-major-161 ircomm-tty
>
> Always had that.
>
> o alias irda0 smc-ircc
>
> Hmmmmm! Funky. Do I need it only for FIR mode or
> did I always need that alias on the Inspiron?
irda-utils-0.9.9/irattach/README should explain it!
> o ... if you do a depmod -a after inserting this into your /etc/conf.modules,
> o then the ircomm-tty module will be automagically loaded when you access
> o char-major-161.
> o
> o dagb-home ~/ > ll /dev/ircomm0
> o crw------- 1 dagb 161, 0 Dec 22 14:15 /dev/ircomm0
>
> Have that, too.
>
> o Do you see the connection now?
> o -- Dag
>
> Yep. However, when people do irattach /dev/ttyS?,
> and then pilot-xfer -p /dev/ttyS? that, they don't
> access /dev/ircomm0 -- how the heck does irda know
> why load ircomm-tty?! Some people here said they
> do pilot-xfer -p /dev/ircomm0, but others do
> /dev/ttyS?. Does irattach /dev/ttyS? make it the
> same as /dev/itcomm0?
No there is a very big difference on /dev/ircomm0 and /dev/ttyS?
+--------------+
| IrCOMM | /dev/ircomm0
+--------------+
| IrTTP |
+--------------+
| IrLMP |
+--------------+
| IrLAP |
+--------------+
| | IrTTY | /dev/ttyS? (when using IrTTY)
| SMC +--------+
| | Serial |
+-----+--------+
So you can see that /dev/ircomm0 binds you application to the top of the
IrDA stack, and if you use /dev/ttyS? for pilox-xfer then you will not
use the IrDA stack at all. You use /dev/ttyS? to irattach, to bind the
bottom of the IrDA stack to a low level serial driver! So you can run IrDA
over a serial port compatible IrDA port, or a serial port which has a
IrDA dongle attached to it.
You don't want to use "irattach /dev/ircomm0" since that would make you run
IrDA over IrCOMM (replace serial with IrCOMM in the figure above). I've
tried it and it works, but I haven't found any good use for it yet ;-)
> Which options exactly do I have to pass to SMC in
> FIR mode? Your line above has none. Is that OK?
Yes!
> I'm sending a bottle of premium St. Emilion to
> the person whose lead will prove decisive in
> making Palm V HotSync with Inspiron 7K. :-)
The Palm cannot speak in FIR mode, so there is no reason for you to try out
the SMC driver. Use "irattach /dev/ttyS? -s" instead.
-- Dag
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