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Posted: Jan. 07 2008,21:46 |
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Hello all, I've been trying to get an Actisys IR-210L infrared dongle running. It is plugged into a FIR 5-pin connector on my Via Epia 5000 motherboard. Extensive googling yielded no result so far.
Code Sample | dmesg|grep irda: <6>IrDA: Registered device irda0 |
Afaik this indicates that the kernel found an irda-compatible chipset.
Code Sample | [home/dsl]#irattach irda0 -s [home/dsl]#ifconfig irda0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 59-C3-98-8B-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 UP RUNNING NOARP MTU:2048 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1806 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:8 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:57534 (56.1 KiB) |
This would indicate that I've got an infrared interface looking to discover near devices - Vivat!
However, syslog looks distinctly dodgier:
Code Sample | [home/dsl]#cat /var/log/messages Jan 7 22:22:04 weksarahdio user.info irattach: executing: '/sbin/modprobe irda0' Jan 7 22:22:04 weksarahdio user.info irattach: + modprobe: Can't locate module irda0 Jan 7 22:22:04 weksarahdio user.info irattach: Trying to load module irda0 exited with status 255 Jan 7 22:22:04 weksarahdio user.info irattach: executing: 'echo weksarahdio > /proc/sys/net/irda/devname' Jan 7 22:22:04 weksarahdio user.info irattach: executing: 'echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/irda/discovery' Jan 7 22:22:04 weksarahdio user.info irattach: Starting device irda0 |
Then run irdadump to see that the thing ignores my beloved Siemens C75 placed close to the dongle.
Code Sample | 21:37:05.600929 xid:cmd 8b98c359 > ffffffff S=6 s=0 (14) 21:37:05.690935 xid:cmd 8b98c359 > ffffffff S=6 s=1 (14) 21:37:05.780963 xid:cmd 8b98c359 > ffffffff S=6 s=2 (14) 21:37:05.870933 xid:cmd 8b98c359 > ffffffff S=6 s=3 (14) 21:37:05.960933 xid:cmd 8b98c359 > ffffffff S=6 s=4 (14) 21:37:06.050934 xid:cmd 8b98c359 > ffffffff S=6 s=5 (14) 21:37:06.140936 xid:cmd 8b98c359 > ffffffff S=6 s=* weksarahdio hint=0400 [ Computer ] (27) |
Trying variations with -d actisys et al. yield similar results. This is driving me bonkers and any hints would be greatly appreciated !! Cheers, Bob
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