[Gloucs] Tuesday's meeting

[Alex Charrett]

On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 22:27, Mike Surtees wrote:
> 
> Anyone going on tuesday whos has managed to get an IR port on a laptop 
> working?
> 
> Anyone, anywhere got one going?  Would appreciate any help offered.
> 
> Using Suse 7.2 on a Thinkpad A20m
> 
> Cheers.

Yeah I've got the one on my laptop working fine (Toshiba Tecra 8000 on
Red Hat 7.3) for use with gnokii and GSM dialup

This will vary according to the sort of irda device you have but this
works for my laptop:

/etc/modules.conf:
alias irda0 toshoboe
alias char-major-151 ircomm-tty

/etc/sysconfig/irda:  (this is probably a RH specific config file)
IRDA=yes
DEVICE=irda0  (this could well be [/dev/]ttySX on different IR devices)
DISCOVERY=yes

Then it should just be a matter of starting the irda service.  You can
see the traffic over the IR link with irdadump (a handy thing).

And I just point my modem dialler at /dev/ircomm0

Hope that helps,

Alex.