[Bug 11401] irrty_sir does not work on Acer TravelMate 620

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------- Additional Comments From mjuliuss at online.no  2005-06-06 12:46 UTC -------
(In reply to comment #0)
> I have tried to load the irtty_sir to get my IR-port working. I have sucessfully
> loaded it before with Gentoo and used it with ircomm(-tty) to connect my
> computer to the Inernet via a GPRS cell phone. 
> 
> Now it loads without any output, but it does not work. I suppose it should be
> visible in /etc/interupts after loading but there is no signs of any serial port
> there.
Not /etc/interupts, but /proc/interupts.

> This is the output from dmesg:
> irda_init()
> NET: Registered protocol family 23

I edited /etc/defaults/irda and set the ENABLED-line from false to true. Now,
after a reboot, I can find "4:      14034          XT-PIC  serial" in
/proc/interupts. Shouldn't this work with only "modprobe irtty_sir"?

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