[ltp] fast IR

[Thomas Hood]

You should submit this to the FAQ-o-matic.

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Thomas

On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 22:37, Chris Hegan wrote:
> Hello there. I have not been monitoring the list recently, and browsing
> back, I noticed what seemed to be a 'dangling question'. I don't know if
> you have solved your problem.
> 
> I have a Thinkpad 390X. After a huge amount of messing around I finally
> have my Palm syncing at 57,600.
> Here are what I hope will be the helpful bits, which may or may not be
> useful to you. You will probably need different specific settings but
> the following might give you some helpful clues.
> .................................................................
> 
> Use the 'findchip' utility to get the spec for your chip (part of
> IRDA-utils.)
> 
> >From my /etc/modules.conf:
> ### update-modules: start processing /etc/modutils/irda
> #modutils/irda
> alias tty-ldisc-11 irtty
> alias char-major-161 ircomm-tty
> alias char-major-60 ircomm_tty
> 
> # for dongle
> alias irda-dongle-0 tekram
> alias irda-dongle-1 esi
> alias irda-dongle-2 actisys
> alias irda-dongle-3 actisys
> alias irda-dongle-4 girbil
> alias irda-dongle-5 litelink
> alias irda-dongle-6 airport
> alias irda-dongle-7 old_belkin
> 
> # for FIR device
> alias irda0 nsc-ircc dongle_id=0x09 io=0x2f8
> 
> Environment variables:
> export PILOTPORT="/dev/ircomm0"
> export PILOTRATE="57600"
> 
> An executable script:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> setserial /dev/ttyS1 uart none
> modprobe irda insmod nsc_ircc dongle_id=0x09
> ifconfig irda0 up
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/irda/discovery
> 
> YOu can put something like this in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts (to stop
> PCMCIA modem from grabbing the IRQ)
> 
> # Resources we should not use, even if they appear to be available
> 
> # First built-in serial port
> exclude irq 4
> # IR serial port
> exclude irq 3
> # First built-in parallel port
> exclude irq 7
> #Exclude IRQ for sound device
> exclude irq 5
> 
> (My PCMCIA modem grabbing the IRQ was what stopped me succeeding for a
> long time. I stumbled across the solution by accident - ejected the card
> and the IR suddenly started working!)
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> >On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 04:40, Tom Allison wrote:
> > IBM A21m:
> > 
> > Everything that I have indicates that irda (this is for a Palm Pilot 
> > link) goes through the serial devices.
> > The fastest that I can get these set to is the 115k.
> > But I was under the impression that the ir port can do 4M.
> > 
> > How can I set this?
> > 
> > 
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