From: <li...@ba...> - 2008-09-24 19:02:01
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Hi! Daniel Klaffenbach "dan...@gm..." wrote: > Hi, >> You know that the Packard Bell receiver cannot work over a USB-to-Serial >> converter? > no, I did not know that :(. Thanks for pointing that out. Is there any > reason for that? The Packard Bell receiver basically is the same as the home-brew receiver that you will find on the lirc.org website. The reason why it does not work over USB is that this hardware uses control lines of the RS232 port to generate interrupts, which is very time critical. This cannot be emulated over USB. > So far I got all my serial devices to work with this > dongle. > > Anyway, I would still like to know what could cause the Segfault I > mentioned. I just tried 0.8.3 (which required some more patching) and the > problem was still there. My guess is that your hardware does not have a serial port at all and the driver crashes as soon as it tries to initialize the hardware which is not there... Christoph |