Re: CIR chipset Winbond WPC876xL

[Juan J. G. de S. L. <ska...@gm...>]

Hi, Léo.

2009/1/14 Léo <leo...@ya...>:
> I have a notebook Acer 5920-6080 with a CIR chipset Winbond WPC876xL. I
> tried to configure LIRC with IrDA hardware, but as described in
> http://ubuntu-virginia.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6426246 I couldn't
> get it working.

I've got an Acer 6530G with the same IR receiver.

> I compiled lirc 0.8.4, but I saw in source that there isn't a driver source
> for that chip. Is there some work in writing a driver for that chipset? Is
> there some site that I can get the driver?

I wrote a driver for it, and Christoph is helping me make it fit. The
LIRC CVS contains a recent version of the code. You could be my first
tester :-)

Best regards,

    Juan Jesús.

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