Hi Jean,
You cannot trust the dongle detection on a laptop (only on ISA-cards),
so you must force the dongle yourself.
modprobe nsc-ircc dongle_id=0x09 # For IBM dongle
-- Dag
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001 18:51:59 -0800, you wrote:
> Hi Dag,
>
> I've got the following hardware :
> -----------------
> Found NSC PC87338 Controller at 0x398, DevID=0x0b, Rev. 2
> SIR Base 0x2f8, FIR Base 0x2f8
> IRQ = 3, DMA = 0
> Enabled: yes, Suspended: no
> UART compatible: yes
> Half duplex delay = 0 us
> -----------------
> nsc-ircc, Found chip at base=0x398
> nsc-ircc, driver loaded (Dag Brattli)
> IrDA: Registered device irda0
> nsc-ircc, Found dongle: Sharp RY5HD01
> -----------------
>
> I've got 2 laptops with exatly the same chip. Work fine in SIR
> mode (if I use 'echo 115200 > /proc/sys/net/irda/max_baud_rate'), but
> doesn't want to work in FIR mode.
> I did back out my speed change patch, but it didn't do
> anything, still refuse to work. As I don't have any "working" FIR
> device, I can't really test what's wrong.
> However, looking in the code, I did notice some comments
> regarding the init of the 87338 which are not reflected in the init
> function, and I've noticed that the Sharp dongle doesn't have any
> special code when changing speed.
>
> Do you have any idea ? Does it work for you ?
>
> Jean
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