[irda-users] Re: Seek help of detecting a USB Irda Dongle on Linux

[Brian P. <bp...@cs...>]

Hi All:

The code at http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~bpugh/mcs7780.html is reasonably
mature.  It is still in alpha but it seems to work well on most linux
distros.  I have two zip files: one for pre-2.6.13 and one for 2.6.13
kernels.  The main difference between them has to do with the sysfs stuff.
I am currently in the process of rewriting that part to make it more sane.

I have gotten some feedback that indicates that it is working on the newer
kernels and I have tested it on 2.6.12 and 2.6.13 kernels.  I haven't
received any negative feedback so far.

Try it out and let me know if you get stuck trying to install it.  I
included a readme in the zip file to explain how to install it.

Good Luck!

Brian

On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Samuel Ortiz wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, ext Angelo Chu wrote:
>
> >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Samuel Ortiz" <sam...@no...>
> > > To: "Angelo Chu" <ang...@ku...>, ird...@li...
> > > Subject: Re: [irda-users] Re: Seek help of detecting a USB Irda Dongle on Linux
> > > Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 03:34:11 +0200 (EET)
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, ext Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> > >
> > > > 	You need to identify it at the USB level. Check the Wireless
> > > > LAN howto on how to identify a card, basically you need to use 'lsusb'.
> > > > 	There is 2 types of USB devices that are supported, the old
> > > > irda-usb (you are unlikely to have one) and the old stir4200 (you may
> > > > have one of those). Newer sigmatel devices are currently in progress,
> > > > there is a beta driver for 2.4.X and it's being ported to 2.6.X,
> > > > check the mailing list about that.
> > > Angelo, did you manage to retrieve your device's USB IDs (vendor and
> > > product) ?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Samuel.
> >
> > >
> >
> > Dear Samuel,
> > I made a little progress on finding the vendor of my USB IrDA dongle,its chips was made by moschip,http://www.moschip.com/html/download_drivers.html
> > My model number is MCS7780.Unfortunately,they just provide an already made "ko" module file,which was compiled on Fedora Core 4 with GCC 4.0.I use Slackware 10.2 and gcc 3.4.How can I use this module on my Linux box???? :( They said make install and insmod.But the fact is,if your system is in line with its compiled environment,you can install it.I kind of give it up because I wasted too much time on this little thing.However,if you use similar type of irda dongle and went successful,please let me know.
> >
> There is an open source patch for the MCS7780 here:
> http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~bpugh/mcs7780.html
>
> Brian, how mature and tested is your code ?
>
> Cheers,
> Samuel.
>