[irda-users] Irda with a BAFO USB v6102f...

[Chunky K. <ch...@ic...>]

Hiya,

I've just bought myself a Bafo USB V6102F irda converter dongle.
Great, except it's no-worky.

I tried checking the list archive, but it seems to not exist...
http://www.pasta.cs.uit.no/mailman/listinfo/linux-irda reports no such
list...

Relevant info:
uname -a
Linux chunky 2.4.19 #5 SMP Sun Sep 29 16:54:50 GMT 2002 i686 unknown

findchip, /proc/{mumble}/discovery and friends report nothing at all.

The device has vender/device IDs 0x66f 0x4200. I tried adding it to
drivers/net/irda/irda-usb.c /a la/

/* Bafo v6102f */
{ USB_DEVICE(0x66f, 0x4200), driver_info: IUC_SPEED_BUG | IUC_NO_WINDOW 
},

In the relevant section, and it grabbed the device, but reported:
Sep 29 18:17:47 chunky /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Setup irda-usb for USB
product 66f/4200/8
Sep 29 18:17:48 chunky /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: missing kernel or user
mode driver irda-usb 

Which I don't really understand; I can remove/re-add the irda-usb
module and nada. The same happens. I've done all the usual module
voodoo, and USB is working fine [I have a USB mouse and joystick]

Uhm... anything else? I've read through the latest version of the
howto on mobilix, but it makes no mention; I followed what it said and
it just assumed that an ircomm interface would be set up once you'd
plugged it in and "let it do that thing that it does".

Thanks,
Gary (-;