[ltp] Kernel panic on starting IRDA

André Wyrwa linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sat, 13 Dec 2003 23:02:28 +0100


Hi,

> 2) modprobe irda0 - this loads irda.o and ioport.o - I pass the io and
> irq
> options to irport.o from modules.conf.

Do you mean ioport.o or irport.o?

Anyway, you shouldn't load irport.o when you are using a FIR mode
driver, aka nsc-ircc.o, sind irport.o is a SIR mode driver.

And you should give the io and irq options to the nsc-ircc.o module,
neither to ioport.o nor irport.o .

Andre.