From: Yann V. <ya...@do...> - 2005-05-25 23:37:16
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On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 10:45:02PM +0200, Ruben Jenster wrote: > I loaded the irtty-sir module as well as the ircomm module but irattach= =20 > doesn't start. The nsc_ircc driver requires the > serial module to be loaded first and 'setserial /dev/ttyS1 uart none' to = be=20 > run. It seems that irtty-sir doesn't care if '8250' is loaded or not. > I tried to sync my palm but it doesn't work. I am not personally familiar with irtty-sir. It's supposed to be connected to a serial port using irattach, so running irattach is how you activate it; with nsc-ircc you can just ifconfig irda0 up and don't need irattach. nsc-ircc should not need 8250; the setserial command is to stop the serial module from using the port. > > It's possible to reconfigure the NSC chip back to HPSIR mode, but it'll > > need the complete settings (i.e. io 0x2f8/irq 3) and the FIR driver was > > never designed to care about those.=20 >=20 > That's weird, because I do load the nsc_ircc module with the complete=20 > settings: 'options nsc-ircc dongle_id=3D0x09 io=3D0x2f8 irq=3D3 dma=3D3' Yes, but nsc-ircc sets it up in FIR mode, which is not 8250 compatible. The 8250 doesn't have DMA, for instance. > > It would require some coding, and=20 > > it's not clear that nsc-ircc should have this behaviour. Perhaps an > > extra utility could be written. >=20 > Sadly I'm only capable of simple bash scripting - do you know someon who = could=20 > do this? Probably, but I'm unlikely to do this myself and less likely to figure out who's more likely.=20 --=20 PGP fingerprint =3D 9242 DC15 2502 FEAB E15F 84C6 D538 EC09 5380 5746 |