[ltp] irda Problems with Thinkpad 600

Robert Svoboda linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 19 Sep 2005 21:40:50 +0200


* Sebastian Anding <andingseb@fh-bingen.de> [2005-09-18 21:04]:
> Hello,

Hello,

> i tried to configure irda on my thinkpad which is running
> gentoo with the linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r10 kernel soures. 

That's what I've been trying to set up too...

> I configured modprobe with the settings mentioned on
> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/IrDA.  But my log shows me the
> following error:
> 
> Sep 16 16:52:40 [kernel] nsc-ircc, Found chip at base=0x02e
> [which seems to be ok]
> Sep 16 16:52:40 [kernel] nsc-ircc, Wrong chip version 0c
>
> Has anyone an idea how to fix that?

I found out that it's behaving differently when I pass the
options directly to modprobe command. So what I do now is (I
have R40):

modprobe nsc-ircc dongle_id=0x09 io=0x2f8 irq=3

Robert