From: William A. <wl...@ea...> - 2005-09-18 01:47:56
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it appears that the difference between the 4200 and the 4210 is that the 4210 is a USB 2.0 device capable of 16m transfer speeds. to support the 4200 i included usb support for uhci, ehci and ohci. not all three are necessary in my case but you certainly will need 2.0 support. udev device discovery does create an entry in /dev for devices that are present at boot(which ones and how depend on its configuration files). it is a little slow on the uptake for devices which are hotplugged. i don't run the daemon so it usually takes udev restart to make it reread /sys and find the new entries. additionally these irda options are set: CONFIG_IRDA=m CONFIG_IRNET=m CONFIG_IRCOMM=m CONFIG_IRDA_CACHE_LAST_LSAP=y CONFIG_IRDA_FAST_RR=y CONFIG_IRDA_DEBUG=y CONFIG_IRTTY_SIR=m CONFIG_SIGMATEL_FIR=m my guess is that the 2.6 4200 driver should work for you unless the 4210 returns a specific signature as a consequence of a device probe the driver simply can not recognize. in any event the core usb drivers (in your case usb 2.0) should see the device if it's plugged in and you should be able to see that in /sys if you have it mounted to the kernel's /proc device directory. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew "ruskie" Levstik" <ru...@ma...> To: <ird...@li...> Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 3:08 PM Subject: Re: [irda-users] stir4210 device > You need hotplug and a current version of irdautils. > If you are still using devfsd, your driver module will get loaded. > If udev, be sure hotplug loads it. > Put the attached scripts in the appropriate hotplug locations. > Reboot. > Thank you... But sadly... it didn't work.... :( I have hotplug... and irda-utils 0.9.16. So I wonder if I'm doing something wrong. The thing is that the GPLed driver I got with is is for the 2.4 kernel only I'm using 2.6.12-rc6 so I can't even build it... and this is a 4210 device. And the kernel already autoloaded(I just love kernel autoloading) the required modules. So not sure what else I could do... btw should it create a /dev device? -- Andrew "ruskie" Levstik Source Mage GNU/Linux Games grimoire guru Key id = 9A5117F8 Key fingerprint = 6731 FEF2 99A8 4672 5962 69AB 3DAF DA67 9A51 17F8 ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ irda-users mailing list ird...@li... http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/irda-users |