Scott Dattalo wrote:
> Alexy,
>
> You can get the irobex tools in the irda-0.9.4 distribution. For some
> reason it hasn't been included in the last three releases (.5, .6, .8). I
> regularly use irobex_palm3 to send .prc to and from my pilot. It works
> great! BTW, when John was describing his problems with getting the Jeteye
> dongle to work and I exclaimed it worked great for me, I neglected a very
> important detail. I applied the 15-pre3 patch to the 2.2.14 kernel. Here's
> what Dag sent out a week ago or so:
>
> -----------------------
>
> Many of the problems you have described would be solved if you upgraded to
> the latest IrDA patches (not the GVBC failure!). So please upgrade, if you
> want me to help you further. You can find the latest code in
> Linux-2.2.15-pre3 (Linux-2.2.14 + pre-patch-2.2.15-3). You'll find it at:
>
> ftp://ftp.<country code>.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.2/
>
> and
>
> ftp://ftp.<country code>.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/alan/2.2.15pre/
>
> ----------------------
>
> AFAIK, you no longer need irmanager, irattach is sufficient. This is how I
> get the Jeteye dongle activated:
>
> /usr/sbin/irattach /dev/ttyS0 -d esi
>
> Hope this helps,
> Scott
>
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Alexy V. Khrabrov wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > 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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