Setting up IRDA on a ThinkPad R50.

Luke Yelavich themuso at themuso.com
Sat Feb 11 12:36:56 UTC 2006


On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 10:27:15PM EST, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> You will not see a device under /dev.  irda0 is a "network" device.  You
> will see it in ifconfig's output.  You should see /dev/ircomm0, though.

I don't have /dev/ircomm0. I noticed that the irda-utils puts a rule in 
/etc/devfs/conf.d. There also doesn't appear to be anything mentioned in 
the udev configs though. Is there anything else I should look at?

> Here's what I did on my T42:
> 
>     $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure irda-utils
>     Enable on startup?  Yes
>     Probe on bootup?  Yes
>     Discovery mode?  No
>     Device type: native
>     FIR: nsc-ircc
>     module options: dongle_id=0x09 io=0x2f8 irq=3 dma=3
>     Port for setserial to quiet: /dev/ttyS1

The above steps helped heaps however, thanks.
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