Re: LIRC on FreeBSD with a USB imon

[Daniel R. <dr...@em...>]

Wow, that's great news!  I had been considering looking at porting the 
driver over, but since I haven't done any driver work in something like 
20 years (and that was System V/386 streams drivers), I was hoping that 
someone else had beat me to it. :)

If you need someone to do more testing once you have it stable, let me 
know.  I'm not going to have any time to play with it until after the 
first of June, but I would love to give it a try after that.

Thanks again for the reply.

alexx8 wrote:
> Hi, Dan,
>
> It's not that easy. ugen is just an universal USB driver that gets attached
> to a device if no better matching driver is found. Getting imon to work with
> ugen would be quite some effort...
> Anyway, I have been developing (porting) linux imon driver to FreeBSD in my
> spare time (not much unfortunately), and I am going to publish it in the
> coming weeks. But you can already see how it looks like on my Silversone
> case running FreeBSD 7.0: http://www.xs4all.nl/~aopopov/imon/imon.html
>
> Regards,
>
> Alex. 
>
>
> Dan Rich wrote:
>   
>> I've decided to take another stab at getting my imon IR interface
>> working on my FreeBSD server.  Unfortunately, it looks like there aren't
>> any kernel-level drivers for the imon (or any other lirc interfaces),
>> however it does show up as /dev/ugen1.1.  I can cat the device and I see
>> data being received.  For example running od -x against /dev/ugen1, I
>> normally see "ffff ffff ffff ff2e", and when I press the mute key on the
>> remote I see "952b b795 0000 012e".  This seems to be close to what I
>> would expect from the imon lirc.conf file I am trying to use, the
>> imon_pad mute should send 0x2b9595b7.  However, lircd doesn't seem to
>> like this, the log file contains: lircd: Really read 2 bytes from
>> '/dev/ugen1.1', expected 3
>>
>> Does anyone have any suggestions on where I can go from here?  Are the
>> special flags I need to convince lircd that it is connected to a usb
>> serial device?  Am I out of luck unless I break down and write a device
>> drive (ick)?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
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