[ltp] IrDA on a T42p?

[Norman Walsh]

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/ "David A. Desrosiers" <desrod@gnu-designs.com> was heard to say:
| On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 12:12 -0400, Norman Walsh wrote:
|> I'll skip the long story. I have an old Palm Pilot that I want to send
|> a program to. The 42p doesn't have a serial port and I can't make the
|> USB/Serial connector talk to the Palm (it talks to my Garmin GPS just
|> fine). So I thought I'd use IrDA.=20
|
| Which USB->Serial adapter is it?=20

It's a Belkin one. The USB subsystem says

  drivers/usb/serial/mct_u232.c: Magic Control Technology USB-RS232
  converter driver z2.0

| And have you followed my HOWTO on this?=20
|
| http://howto.pilot-link.org/irdasync/

I have.=20

But do you really expect it to work after the subsystem reported an NPE?

[4294686.593000] IrDA: Registered device irda0
[4294686.593000] nsc-ircc, Found dongle: HP HSDL-1100/HSDL-2100
[4294686.594000] nsc-ircc, Found chip at base=3D0x02e
[4294686.594000] nsc-ircc, driver loaded (Dag Brattli)
[4294686.594000] nsc_ircc_open(), can't get iobase of 0x2f8
[4294686.746000] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtua=
l address 00000004
[4294686.746000]  printing eip:
[4294686.746000] c013112f
[4294686.746000] *pde =3D 00000000
[4294686.746000] Oops: 0002 [#1]

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | Simplicity is always a virtue.--Edward
http://nwalsh.com/            | Abbey

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