IR on Toshiba 4600

[Carl K. <ca...@pe...>]

So I got lirc all built and installed, not sure what to do next.

For openers, I am not sure what com it is on, or even if it is on - the 
bios setup is 1.5 pages, and nothing seems relevant.  I didn't see 
anything in dmesg about it.  Shouldn't I be able to probe all the 
posable places and see what is where?

Some things I have read:

http://tuxmobil.org/ir_misc.html

"Satellite Pro 4600 - 	works, see Linux/IrDA archiv " 
http://www.pasta.cs.uit.no/pipermail/linux-irda/2001-October/003262.html 
dead link.

but "for all Toshiba models see Toshiba IrDA HOWTO by Guenther Wieser" 
http://www.creative-it.com/linux/irda/toshiba_irda_howto.html

where it says
modprobe toshoboe # for Toshiba notebooks using toshoboe

I need to do this?  Hope not, because:

root@snubby:/usr/src/linux # find ./ -name "toshoboe*"
(nothing)

> If you use the kernel tools to attach the IR port to a tty than lircd to
> that tty it should. I have not tried but was looking at my Vaio the
> other day and the thought crossed my mind.

Um... what?

Am I on the right track:
root@snubby:/usr/src/linux # cat /etc/modules.conf
alias char-major-61 lirc_serial
options lirc_serial irq=4 io=0x3e8

Just for kicks:

root@snubby:/usr/src/linux # ps -C lircd
   PID TTY          TIME CMD
root@snubby:/usr/src/linux # irrecord /tmp/foo

irrecord -  application for recording IR-codes for usage with lirc

Copyright (C) 1998,1999 Christoph Bartelmus(li...@ba...)

irrecord: could not open /dev/lirc
irrecord: default_init(): No such device or address
irrecord: could not init hardware (lircd running ? --> close it, check 
permissions)

root@snubby:/usr/src/linux # ls -l /dev/lirc*
crwxrwxrwx  1 root root 61, 0 2005-04-13 19:45 /dev/lirc
srwxrwxrwx  1 root root     0 2005-04-13 21:03 /dev/lircd
prwxrwxrwx  1 root root     0 2005-04-13 19:46 /dev/lircm

Carl K