[irda-users] some basic getting started questions

[<Ric...@cs...>]

Hi Everyone,

Apologies in advance if these are foolish questions.

I recently bought a USB infrared port. It is 
called a MA-620, made by "Mobile Action 
Technology", and naturally I want to get running 
under Linux.

I'm not sure about the best way to go about 
determining which driver to use (assuming that it 
is supported at all). If I get the right driver, 
is there any stage at which I should be seeing the 
lights flash or some other indication that things 
are going well without needing another infrared 
device talking to it?

I've tried the usbserial module which seems to 
find something (see extract from /var/log/messages 
below), but I've no idea whether this is meant to 
confirm that the device is really meant to be used 
this way or whether it would respond in the same 
way no matter what USB device is plugged in?


usbserial.c: Generic converter now attached to 
ttyUSB0 (or usb/tts/0 for devfs)

Any help welcome...

Thanks

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Ric...@cs...