[ltp] Re: (fwd) [PATCH] 2.6.16 ThinkPad T43/R52/*60 PnP IrDA support

[Shem Multinymous]

On 6/4/06, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> wrote:

> > "You can not use gnokii over infrared and linux-irda at the same time.
> > If you want use gnokiis ir-communication you must put linux-irda
> > off."
>
> Yuck.
>
> > Anyway, SIR+minicom (yay!) work and FIR+minicom don't work. This may
>
> Never heard of FIR working as a common serial link, I think you need to use
> one of the IrDA protocols (i.e. stuff like irattach) with FIR.

Indeed. And even in FIR mode gnokii requires (and minicom only works
with) /dev/ircomm0 -- which is provided by ircomm-tty and irattach. So
I don't think the docs mean what they say, and I'm not sure what they
mean to say.


> Do you get any OOPSes (kernel crash logs)?  Or it just hangs?

No oops, just hangs.


> Make 100% sure you removed the old nsc-ircc.h and nsc-ircc.c, and use either
> freshely patched 2.6.16 ones with the sigle new patch, or the already
> patched ones I sent you.

I'm sure I used the patched files, and got a hang within a few hours
of loading that kernel and modules. Of course, I can't be sure that
the hang was caused by nsc-ircc, though this box (does a laptop
qualify as "box"?)  was rock stable before loading nsc-ircc.

  Shem