[irda-users] Re : Dell Latitude C600 w/ Siemens S35i and Palm V

[Jean T. <jt...@bo...>]

Martin Diehl wrote :
> On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Harald Milz wrote:
>  
>  > are there any known issues using a Dell Latitude C600 with Linux IrDA? I'm
>  > using SuSE Linux 8.0 w/ the standard 2.4.18 kernel and don't see any
>  > discovery (it does work with XP Prof 2600 on the box). The IR port is
>  > physically attached to the second UART i.e. COM2 or ttyS1, and setserial
>  > shows the proper IRQ and I/O.
>  
>  In fact that's not good because this means the port has been grabbed by
>  the serial driver - bad luck for irtty (or whatever irda-driver you use)
>  
>  therefore: rmmod serial - or at least "setserial /dev/ttyS1 uart none"

	Except for irtty that just wraps around the standard serial
driver. That's why irtty is safe, you don't have to mess up with
serial config.

>  > "irattach /dev/ttyS1 -s" starts fine but
>  > irdadump shows no discovery as pointed out on Jean's web page. OK wrong
>  > driver, wrong port??? It's just irtty and the second port. What else can
>  > be wrong? IrDA is set to "Slow IR" in the BIOS. "Fast IR" is possible
>  > as well but findchip does not detect any known chip when this is set in
>  > the BIOS.

	o irq setting

	Jean