IrDA anyone?

[darookee]

Had someone got it to work? My tries failed... it doesn't even work, if IrDA mode is enabled in the BIOS-settings
Do you need special driver for this one?

[darookee]

cool... 35 views and no answer : / didn't anyone get this to work?

[joern]

cool... 35 views and no answer : / didn't anyone get this to work?

Yeah, I can imagine that this sucks. However, personally I haven't tried IrDA, so I can't help.

But why don't you outline what you have tried so far and what kernel you are using? This might help others and prevent that we spend time on things that will fail anyways.

Also, http://www.otierney.net/laptop/ says that the drivers would be in the kernel (2.4.19 is what he was using), but AFAIK he does not own the S6010 anymore and since he never used IrDA, I am not sure how helpful that is...

[darookee]

http://www.otierney.net/laptop/

this page i startet at when i got my lifebook
yesterday i took a look on my girlfriends lifebook which is a S-6010, too. but with windows installed and i saw that the infrared device is manufactured by SMC. So i googled a bit and found that there is a driver in the kernel 0_o
now i'm using 2.6.0 and the module name is smsc_ircc2
it seems to work but i can't get a connection to my nokia 6610 yet and even can't get irrecord to record something from my remote control :/
but i keep on trying and post a little tutorial as soon as i got something to work stable

[joern]

It took me a while to figure it out, but I just got the irda port to work.

kernel used: 2.6.7

// create the devices
cd /dev && ./MAKEDEV irda

or manually...

mknod /dev/ircomm0 c 161 0
mknod /dev/ircomm1 c 161 1
mknod /dev/irlpt0 c 161 16
mknod /dev/irlpt1 c 161 17
mknod /dev/irnet c 10 187
chmod 666 /dev/ir*


// prepare the kernel
Device Drivers --->
Networking support --->
IrDA (infrared) support --->
<M> IrDA subsystem support
--- IrDA protocols
<M> IrLAN protocol
<M> IrNET protocol
<M> IrCOMM protocol
[ ] Ultra (connectionless) protocol
--- IrDA options
[ ] Cache last LSAP
[ ] Fast RRs (low latency)
[*] Debug information
Infrared-port device drivers --->
--- SIR device drivers
<M> IrTTY (uses Linux serial driver)
--- Dongle support
--- Old SIR device drivers
< > IrPORT (IrDA serial driver)
--- Old Serial dongle support
--- FIR device drivers
<M> SMSC IrCC (EXPERIMENTAL)


// edit /etc/modprobe.conf
alias irda0 smsc_ircc2


// Remove the serial driver that gets in the way
setserial /dev/ttyS3 uart none


// load modules
modprobe irda
modprobe ircomm
modprobe ircomm-tty
modprobe smsc_ircc2

irattach irda0 -s


// check the device
ifconfig should show irda0 up
irdadump should show traffic


If you have any problems, take a look at your IRQs. I had a conflict with a wireless PCMCIA card, because both tried to use IRQ 3.


Next I will try to access my Nokia's 6230 phonebook and MMC, if anybody got hints already, that would be nice.