Re: How do I make LIRC work with my IrDA port?

[Harry M. <hj...@ec...>]

On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Raymond M Candelora wrote:

> I have a laptop running Red Hat Linux 9. According to the BIOS there is an
> HPSIR port on COM2, x02f8, IRQ 3
> 
> Despite all of the conflicting info on the LIRC and Tuxmobil Infrared-HOWTO
> pages I have been unable to get the interface to recieve data from an
> standard TV remote control.
> 
> Some posters say it will never work because of the different modulation
> schemes, and some say they have actually done it.

I've done it. The main problem I encountered was the kernel serial driver
fighting with the lirc_sir driver; dmesg reports an error about the address
being in use. Try

setserial /dev/ttyS1 uart none

before loading the lirc_sir module.

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