hey list,

i just subscribed so please forgive me if this is a FAQ!  i did scan the
archives but didn't see anything that looked relevant in the past few
months' subjects.

i have ircomm working great (with kernel 2.2.15pre20, irda-utils v.9.10),
and it talks to my palmpilot with no problems (via the builtin IR port on
my apple powerbook, under linuxppc 2000).  however, i can only get it going
at 9600 baud (bps?) which makes it just about useless for backing up or
restoring 8M of data that i store on the thing.

i've tried stty'ing the serial port itself (shows up as ttyS1) but stty
reports "device in use" which makes sense since it is irattached.  however
stty won't talk to /dev/ircomm0 at all, it just hangs or errors.
setserial similarly.  stty'ing the port to any speed >9600 before irattaching
is successful, but upon irattaching,

irlap_change_speed(), setting speed to 9600

happens and i can't get it to change to anything else (it being /dev/ttyS1
which then reports 9600 as its speed when queried via stty) (except "0" when
i start talking to it...but it seems to still go at 9600-like speeds then).
stty reports 'stty: standard input: Invalid argument' when run with the same
command line as worked before irattaching.

i further tried a kludge of hardwiring irlap.c in the kernel to set the
speed to some higher value (57600) but then beyond irattaching i can't get
the port to send or listen at all (according to an IR-monitoring program on
my pilot and irdadump on the powerbook).

so, i guess my question is:  does the ircomm protocol support >9600 baud,
and how might i go about achieving it?  setting the pilot to higher speeds
has no effect, (adverse or otherwise) but i'm pretty sure its SOP is to
drop down to what the host talks at without complaining anyway.

thanks for your help, and thanks for some excellent utils and work!  thanks
to your and the linuxppc folks work, i can now ditch the inferior OS from
this machine (its last use was syncing my pilot) and stay in linux 24/7
instead of 23.9/7 =)

PS:  would the official developers of irda-utils be interested in a
contribution of some man pages?

-- 
what goes up, must come down.

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