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[<wil...@zo...>]

In response to various replies (thanks to all)

> I think that on the psion 5 mx it isn't ttyS1, it is ttyAM1 or so.
> btw, how much RAM do you have? I'm wondering whether it would run on my
> MC 218 (MX-clone with 16 MB ram)...
>
>
Just the standard 16MB ram.  I'm using a 16MB swap file as well.

On the IRDA, unfortunately I don't have a device called ttyAM0.  The kernel is 
the 2.4.27 one from Sourceforge complete with modules for irda and irdatty 
which load up fine.  I am just reinstalling irda-utils_0.9.16-9 as I type this 
so here goes..

Firstly it's asking what kind of FIR chip type the Psion has - I don't know so 
try Googling for "psion 5mx" plus the name of each option but none jump out.  
We'll go with  option 1, 'ali-ircc'.

Next do I want to pass options to the module with 'modinfo'?  No.  Press 
return...

Then it says...
Architecture-specific modutils configuration not found, using defaults
Starting IrDA service: irattach

A 'ps -ef' reveals that there's no irattach process running.

If I try doing a 'irattach /dev/ttyAM0 -s 1' I get 'no such device'.  Do the 
same with '/dev/ircomm0' and the message 'IrCOMM protocol (Dag Brattili) - 
registered device irda0' comes up but if I go to another console, do an 
'irdadump' and try to send a file from a mobile phone to the Psion I get nowt.  
Same goes if I do 'cat > /dev/ircomm0' on another console and type a few 
characters, so I conclude that the device isn't working properly.

Clues... IrDA needs the 'makedev' and 'module-init-tools' (which I think is 
another name for modutils) packages to work.  I've just reinstalled makedev 
with no problem.  Now reinstalling module-init-tools 3.2-pre1-2.deb and I get 
the following error message:

Configuration for arm not found, trying arm.generic
Architecture-specific config file not found

I wonder if this is the problem given the 'modultils' error given by the irda-
utils installation?

Cheers all for the help - liked the mount / unmount MsDOS partition trick for 
getting files across... :-)


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