Re: IR remote on Jetway Ion Top JBC231C98

[Jarod W. <ja...@wi...>]

On Feb 15, 2011, at 5:49 PM, bedege wrote:

> OK. Thanks for the answer!

No problem.

Please consider bottom-posting on this list though. :)

> Should I consider that Jetway's Tech Support was simply trying to fool me?

They're probably just clueless.

> Since you seem to have the datasheet, do you confirm that Jetway has
> changed its IR device between their two Ion-Top boxes (Atom D525 vs.
> 330)?

I have the Fintek LPC SuperIO spec sheet and an NC98 board, provided
courtesy of Fintek. The IR bits are most definitely Fintek. I don't
know anything about any prior Jetway systems.


> 2011/2/15 Jarod Wilson <ja...@wi...>:
>> On Feb 15, 2011, at 3:39 PM, bedege wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi
>>> I recently purchased an HTPC by Jetway (JBC231C98-525). This is the
>>> Ion-Top, ie not so tiny mini-ITX box with an optical drive and a
>>> remote, *not* the Mini top. It has an Atom D525 and a Nvidia Ion2 GPU
>>> and uses Jetway's NC98-525E-LF motherboard.
>>> This PC is shipped with a remote, that I'm trying to use under Ubuntu
>>> 10.04, 64 bits. Thus I'm looking for some lirc support.
>>> I first tried to use Nuvoton's driver. That trick apparently worked on
>>> a previous generation of Ion-Top (the one with the Atom 330). I
>>> installed lirc-nct677x-x64-1.1.0-ubuntu10.10-kernel2.6.35.deb and
>>> lirc-nct677x-src-1.1.0-ubuntu10.10.deb on top of lirc but didn't get
>>> any output when running irw.
>>> Then, Jetway's Tech Support advised me to update my Linux Kernel to
>>> 2.6.36. so that it can support Fintek's F71809 CIR device. I've then
>>> installed that kernel, but am a little stuck now:
>>> - Googling F71809 didn't give me any results, nor any hint about
>>> 2.6.36 supporting it
>>> - I don't know what lirc option I should use with that device.
>>> Does anybody have a clue on that one? I fully recognize that it is
>>> kind of a recent hardware, and all Linux/lirc support might not be
>>> available yet.
>> 
>> Not going to work right now. There's no driver for Fintek's CIR
>> implementation. Yet. Its on the TODO list, but there are quite a
>> few other things also on the list -- mainly ironing out bugs in
>> drivers for hardware already in widespread use -- which are of
>> higher priority right now.
>> 
>> (I have hardware and datasheets, just lacking in time to work on
>> a brand new driver right now).


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