Re: help in implementing IrDA & Gnokii

[Ruud Koendering]

On Wednesday 07 July 2004 16:18, Simon Huggins wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 05:27:16PM +0200, ruud koendering wrote:
> > On Tuesday 06 July 2004 16:52, Simon Huggins wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 04:35:59PM +0200, ruud koendering wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 06 July 2004 16:30, Simon Huggins wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 03:55:12PM +0200, ruud koendering wrote:
> > > > > > Mandrake 10.0 Linux recognize it as "UHCI Host Controller (1) >
> > > > > > IRExpress USB IrDA Controller ". i.e. Mandrake knows IrDA.
> > > > > > Question: How to check if IrDA is working?
> > > > >
> > > > > irdadump should tell you that.  Did you read
> > > > > Docs/gnokii-IrDA-Linux?
> > > >
> > > > irdadump not running!  (kernel starts IrDA)
> > >
> > > As in you run it and nothing happens or it doesn't run and errors or
> > > what?
> >
> > Nothing happens Control-C stops the program....
>
> Then something isn't happy on the IrDA side.  You need to fix that
> before gnokii will work.
>
> I've not played with a usb IrDA thing though (well I did once but it
> kind of all just worked).
>
> > NET: Registered protocol family 23
> > IRDA-USB found at address 3, Vendor: 50f, Product: 180
> > IrDA: Registered device irda0
> > drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver irda-usb
> > USB IrDA support registered
> > drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for
> > Generic drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver usbserial
> > drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial Driver core v2.0
> > drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for IR
> > Dongle drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver ir-usb
> > drivers/usb/serial/ir-usb.c: USB IR Dongle driver v0.4
>
> Oh hrm.  Looks like usbserial was loaded.  I guess it could have claimed
> the device.
>
> What happens if you try irattach on whatever the new serial device is
> probably /dev/ttyUSB0 ?
> i.e. irattach /dev/ttyUSB0 -s
>

Nothing!

> Alternatively what happens if you unload the usbserial driver and try
> irattach irda0 -s
>

Nothing again

I checked /dev and can not finmd anything . . . . . . 

> Have you googled for some kind soul that's got it working?
>

Yes, I checked  http://www.earth.li/~huggie/gnokii-IrDA-Linux

http://www.tuxmobil.org/Infrared-HOWTO/Infrared-HOWTO.html

and again what i can not find is:

the usb is recognized even the irda is recognized as:

in KDE Control Center > Information > USB Devicesis giving:

UHCI Host Controller (1)  IRExpress USB IrDA Controller
met onderliggende gegevens


> Once you do get it working let me know what you need and I'll submit a
> patch to the docs in gnokii.
>

Sure . . . 

> Simon.

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