From: Berend De S. <ber...@uc...> - 2006-06-15 07:51:07
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On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 18:28 +0200, Samuel Ortiz wrote: > You don't need that. IrCOMM is a serial port emulation over IrDA and > apparently the later watches support it. I saw that too, but I couldn't get that too work either :) So I'm building my knowledge up now. On that note: thanks for the responses. > The current Linux IrDA stack implements IrCOMM as well. So, if you have > enabled the IrCOMM support from your kernel, you then need to "irattach > irda0 -s", and then you can use /dev/ircomm0 and /dev/ircomm1 as regular > serial device. OK, I was confused here, because on the laptop I (seem to) need to run irattach to get the irda0 interface UP. (without irattach, nothing shows in ifconfig. With the USB dongle, irda0 is always in ifconfig.) I'll need to update the software anyway, I think. It doesn't seem to work with /dev/ircomm0. The software starts, and if I initiate a file transfer, the watch responds (it displays "infrared com"), but no data is received. That means: /dev/ircomm0 is definitely associated to the USB dongle. The watch definitely sees the PC. The PC knows the watch is there. The PC asks for data. The watch actually sends some data. The PC either gets no data, or doesn't interpret it correctly. Regards, Berend -- Confidentiality notice: http://ucs.co.za/conf.html |