Re: 0.1.54

[Zac Sprackett <zsprackett valinux com>]

On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 03:38:55PM -0700, eskil@eazel.com wrote:
> "David A. Desrosiers" wrote:
> 
> > > I've finally gotten around to begin to try irda sync, but only gotten
> > > as far as upgrading the palmos.
> >
> >         Make sure to have fresh batteries (or a full charge), and *DON'T
> > INTERRUPT THE PORT*
> 
> Yeah, flashrom upgrades are spooky, byt it survived.
> 
> I've also fiddled with the irport, and it definitely looks like the ir port
> on
> my laptop is not just a decorative piece of plastic. But I have still not
> been successfull in getting it to work.
> 
> Basically, I load irda, irport, ircomm, ircomm-tty and irlan.
> I then run "irmanager -d /dev/ttyS1" which responds with
> IrDA: Unable to find requested dongle. ttyS1 shows up in
> dmesg, should I use a non-existing ttyS (2) ?
> Then I run "irattach /dev/ttyS1 -s".

You may have to set the irq or base address of the port.  Look in your laptop
bios to see what it is set to.  I use the following on my vaio:

setserial /dev/ttyS2 port port 0x3e8 irq 10
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