From: Patrick D. <Pat...@so...> - 2003-07-22 12:12:42
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> > In the bios one can enable the port as a FIR with associated IO,IRQ and > > DMA setting. > > After doing that is got a serial device /dev/ttyS0. > > That serial device is usually not the IrDA device, but > I guess such Tablet PCs do not have a *real* serial port, so > this is maybe the correct device number. But please > double check that, e.g. with `dmesg |grep tty' . Also > it seems wrong that you have to enable FIR in the BIOS to get the > SIR device. I have two options in the BIOS: External Serial Device or FIR. If i disable this, the serial port is gone, so i'm pretty sure this is the device. > Please double check the BIOS options. In any > case you should try the SIR way first. If this really does not > work you should switch to FIR (BTW: I only know of two > laptops which do not work with SIR). > > > I've upgrade to the latest irda-utils (0.9.15). > > You should always use latest kernel and Linux/IrDA docs, too. 2.4.21 > > > > Ok, i've tried numerous of FIR drivers to no succes (yes, with the > > serial uart none part). > > Make sure not to set the UART type to none if you are trying SIR. > I did it only for FIR (sorry for confusing) > Better send a short output from `irdadump'. I'll send it to you seperatly (but i only states something localhost and then 1,2,3,4,5,6,* and starts over again. > > Werner > > PS: Could you write a report about this Tablet PC for tuxmobil.org please? > There are some pages, which could use that information: I was planning this. > > http://tuxmobil.org/centrino.html about Centrino laptops > http://tuxmobil.org/tablet_unix.html about Tablet PCs > http://tuxmobil.org/acer.html about ACER laptops > http://tuxmobil.org/ir_misc.html IrDA survey of laptops, PDAs,.. > > |