[ltp] Linux IRDA drivers for the X30

[Tino Keitel]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 14:46:31 +0200, Tino Keitel wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 17:37:06 +0200, Karl Trygve Kalleberg wrote:
> > 
> > Hi.
> > 
> > I have an X30, the 2672, manufactured 03/03. The kernel irda
> > drivers (2.4.20) do not appear to detect the irda hardware at
> > loading time, nor have I had any luck with irda-utils-0.9.15's
> > findchip.
> > 
> > I noticed somebody mentioned that the irda subsystem may need to be
> > enabled first, and that the tpctl can do this, but afact, this only
> > works with the superio chip, which is not present in my model.
> > 
> > Any pointers would be great.
> > 
> > Karl T
> 
> You should be able to use the IrDA port in SIR (Serial InfraRed, max.
> 115kbit/s) mode using the IrTTY or IrPort kernel driver, like
> described at
> <http://www-hft.ee.tu-berlin.de/~strauman/irda-tiny-howto.html>. A
> few weeks ago, I tried to use the FIR (max. 4 mbit/s) mode on my A30.
> I was able to load the nsc-ircc module after removing some checks in
> the hardware detection code. However, I could not test the IrDA
> function, but I will try to do that this week with my girlfrieds
> ThinkPad as a second IrDA device and let you know about the results
> and code changes.


Hum, I got the nsc-ircc.o module to load successfully (with a few
hacks), it detected the IBM IrDA hardware, but there was no real IrDA
traffic in the air. Using SIR with irtty it worked. Anybody out there
who had more luck with IrDA (FIR mode using the nsc-ircc driver) on the
A30?

Regards,
Tino