Re: [irda-users] Re: Silly newbie question

[guy f. <guy...@ho...>]

Hi there,


There's something going on here in the infrared land.
People seems to be having trouble with getting there infrared up and 
running.
Maybe we are not smart enough, maybe we are to lazy maybe Jean and the 
others are so smart they don't understand how difficult it is.

We have limitited kwowledge of linux and how it operates. We are users who 
want's to expand the given functionality from the distro they installed.

And if you have a laptop and a Ericcson R320(mobile phone) for instance you 
like to connect them. Why because you had a certain functionalty in M$98 a 
long time ago.

What you do then is you start searching and hence they arrive here and in 
other place's. That is one of the problem we users end up with different 
manuals.
Sometime they contradict each other.

The other problem is thinking we know what every instruction means. You have 
to explain it to us like explaining it ot the pc.
example: dont say edit lilo but say: be sure to be root! open any editor and 
edit /etc/lilo.conf after you've done this. Dont forget to execute following 
command (lilo -v)
If it's done this way we wouldn't waste the time of the programmers.

I'm able to recompile, compile from scratch a kernel thanks to the manuals. 
Why can't I get your stuff working?
It's very hard to explain  an ignorant a thing that's granted for us. I hope 
you succeed. You have less e-mail from us, more time to spent on the fun 
stuff and we could connect our infra stuff.
You must be aware of the program from Dag Bratlli (proxima browser) thanx to 
that program I know I can connect in linux my infra stuff. I wasn't sure 
anymore, that this was posible in linux.

I hope this doesn't offend you it is not my intention. The intention is just 
to motivate you to keep on doing the fun stuff and write the manual in such 
a way we all succeed.
Hey te moment I succeed i'll write it down and send it to you.

Kind regards
Guy Forssman


>From: Jean Tourrilhes <jt...@bo...>
>Reply-To: ird...@li...
>To: ird...@li...
>Subject: [irda-users] Re: Silly newbie question
>Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 11:04:59 -0700
>
>Joshua Newton wrote :
> > Hey, folks. Can someone explain to me how to get a serial console
> > working under Linux thru IrDA? I've spent a while looking for
> > documentation on the subject, and I'm coming up mostly blank. The
> > Linux-IrDA HowTo has a little bit of information, but it looks like it's
> > written for an older version of the Linux IrDA stack and/or tools, and
> > following the directions didn't get me very far.
>
>	I describe something similar between two Linux boxes on my web
>page. I believe I checked it last time something like 6 months ago.
>
> > I've confirmed that my IR hardware is supported; I can see the Palm
> > Pilot in the discovery log, or at least I could before I switched to
> > half-duplex in BIOS setup while I was fiddling. (Should I be using half
> > or full duplex?)
>
>	You should use whatever works.
>
> > I've spent some time experimenting with mgetty, and so far the most
> > result I've managed to produce is this:
> >
> > Aug 10 15:10:42 rapier mgetty[2191]: init chat failed, exiting...:
> > Interrupted system call
> > Aug 10 15:10:42 rapier mgetty[2191]: failed in mg_init_data,
> > dev=ircomm0, pid=2191
>
>	There has been various fix to IrCOMM lately. See my web page
>for some patches.
>	Also, without irdadump...
>
>	Jean
>
>
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