Re: IR header on motherboard

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Doug Laidlaw wrote:

>I am running Mandrake LE 2005.
>My motherboard has a 5-pin header.  My 
>interface is from a magazine kit based on the surface-mount TFDS4500 from 
>Vishnay Telefunken.  My remote is a replacement unit with no markings 
>whatever.
>  
>
I have got nearly the same hardware.
I am using a Debian Linux.

>According to the instructions, the BIOS redirects COM2 to the header.
>
In my Award Bios,
I set the "UART2 Mode" to "Irda 1.0".

The system running,
I remove the serial line from Linux driver control:

*|# setserial /dev/ttyS1 uart none|*

>Following the HOWTO, it seems that Iin /etc/sysconfig/lircd, I should set the 
>HOWTO's
>  
>
We haven't got the same file names.

# cat /etc/lirc/hardware.conf
LIRCD_ARGS=""
LOAD_MODULES=true
DRIVER="default"
DEVICE="/dev/lirc"
MODULES="lirc_dev lirc_sir"
LIRCD_CONF=""
LIRCMD_CONF=""

>I can get the lircd daemon to run, but I then disabled it to run the test with 
>"mode2".  This made the device disappear from /dev .
>If I run "irw" while the daemon is running, I get no output to the terminal 
>(before, there was an error message.)
>  
>
*||**|# insmod ~/lirc/drivers/lirc_dev/lirc_dev.ko
# insmod ~/lirc/drivers/lirc_sir/lirc_sir.ko
# mknod /dev/lirc c 61 0
|*# smode2

And It works.