Re: newbie question on IrDA & Nokia 6510

[Pawel Kot]

>>> address@hidden 29 May 2002 13:24:54 >>>
> I'd need some quidance for connecting to a Nokia 6510 through IrDA. This 
> is the first time I'm using the IrDA interface on a PC.
> 
> I managed the give life to the IrDA stuff by modprobes and then
> 
> irattach /dev/ttyS1 -s 1
> 
> it the syslog it went:
> 
> kernel: IrDA: Registered device irda0
> /etc/hotplug/net.agent: assuming irda0 is already up
> irattach: executing: 'echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/irda/discovery'
> irattach: Starting device irda0
> irattach: executing: 'echo destroy > /proc/sys/net/irda/devname'

Please write what IrDA device do you use.

> after that I can run irdadump, it dumps the following endlessly:
> 
> 11:21:31.247646 xid:cmd 2b987813 > ffffffff S=6 s=0 (14)
> 11:21:31.337647 xid:cmd 2b987813 > ffffffff S=6 s=1 (14)
> 11:21:31.427653 xid:cmd 2b987813 > ffffffff S=6 s=2 (14)
> 11:21:31.517654 xid:cmd 2b987813 > ffffffff S=6 s=3 (14)
> 11:21:31.607643 xid:cmd 2b987813 > ffffffff S=6 s=4 (14)
> 11:21:31.697644 xid:cmd 2b987813 > ffffffff S=6 s=5 (14)
> 11:21:31.787646 xid:cmd 2b987813 > ffffffff S=6 s=* destroy hint=8404 [ 
Computer IrCOMM ] (24)

It seems your phone is not visible to Linux. Did you enable irda in your phone?

> port = /dev/ttyS1

Maybe /dev/ircomm0

pkot