[irda-users] Re: Problem with the act200l driver

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

On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 07:11:27AM -0700, Sunny Pan wrote:
>
>     However, I'm a novice in linux so that I don't
> really familiar with the procedure of installing the
> drivers. What I've done was I installed RedHat Linux
> 7.2. Since it doesn't come with the act200l driver, so
> I downloaded the newest kernel 2.5.22 which has the
> act200l driver included. I updated the kernel and
> everything seems fine, except the adaptor doesn't
> transmit anything.

	I would personally use 2.4.19 plus the patch on my web
page. 2.4.20-pre2 should have the driver.

> First method(Embedded into the kernel)-

	Don't you read my web page ?

> 6. then I do "irattach /dev/ttyS0 -d act200l -s 1"(I

	It's written all over my web page, don't use "-s 1", just use
"-s".

> confirmed it is connected to COM1(ttyS0) and the io is
> 0x3f8, with irq=4) and lsmod shows:
> Module         Size   Used by
> irtty          5904    0  (autoclean)
> act200l        1584    0  (unused)
> irda          93456    0  [irtty act200l]
> 7. Now the light is on.
> 8. Problem here, running irdadump this time however,
> is even worse. It didn't show up any trace line.

	I want to see the output of :
		o ifconfig irda0
		o cat /proc/net/irda/irlap
		o dmesg
	<of course, after doing the above>

> Regards,
> Sunny Pan

	Good luck...

	Jean