Hello from the Eighth Doctor
Has anyone gotten IRDA to work on their systems?
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Gregg drwho8 atsign att dot net
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On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 20:19:25 GMT, The Eighth Doctor <drwho8__NOTME__@att.net>
wrote:
> Has anyone gotten IRDA to work on their systems?

Yes. What, specifically, are you having trouble with.


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In article <slrncv5k2e.fb5.usenet@dustpuppy.no-dns-yet.org.uk>,
usenet@no-dns-yet.org.uk says...
>
>On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 20:19:25 GMT, The Eighth Doctor
<drwho8__NOTME__@att.net>
>wrote:
>> Has anyone gotten IRDA to work on their systems?
>
>Yes. What, specifically, are you having trouble with.
>
>
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Hello from the Eighth Doctor
Basically configuring the userland tools. They seem to prefer a system which
follows the annoying methods behind Red Hat.

And then there's the nature of the dongle that I chose, its an ActiSys ACT-IR200L.
The stack has it mentioned in the supported dongles. And the userland tools
describe it.

That is the very nature of my problems. What I am planning on using the whole
business for, comes later.
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On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 22:29:05 GMT, The Eighth Doctor <drwho8__NOTME__@att.net>
wrote:
> Basically configuring the userland tools. They seem to prefer a system which
> follows the annoying methods behind Red Hat.

I don't remember finding that.

> And then there's the nature of the dongle that I chose, its an ActiSys ACT-IR200L.
> The stack has it mentioned in the supported dongles. And the userland tools
> describe it.

I don't use one of those, but, if the software says it supports it, it
should work.

> That is the very nature of my problems. What I am planning on using the whole
> business for, comes later.

Without knowing what you're trying to do, how you're trying to do it,
what software you're using & what problems you're having, I can't say
much past "It works for me.[tm]". This guide might help you:
<URL:http://www.tuxmobil.org/Infrared-HOWTO/Infrared-HOWTO.html>.

Good luck.


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In article <slrncv5s7e.fb5.usenet@dustpuppy.no-dns-yet.org.uk>,
usenet@no-dns-yet.org.uk says...
>
>On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 22:29:05 GMT, The Eighth Doctor
<drwho8__NOTME__@att.net>
>wrote:
>> Basically configuring the userland tools. They seem to prefer a system which
>> follows the annoying methods behind Red Hat.
>
>I don't remember finding that.
>
>> And then there's the nature of the dongle that I chose, its an ActiSys
ACT-IR200L.
>> The stack has it mentioned in the supported dongles. And the userland tools
>> describe it.
>
>I don't use one of those, but, if the software says it supports it, it
>should work.
>
>> That is the very nature of my problems. What I am planning on using the whole
>> business for, comes later.
>
>Without knowing what you're trying to do, how you're trying to do it,
>what software you're using & what problems you're having, I can't say
>much past "It works for me.[tm]". This guide might help you:
><URL:http://www.tuxmobil.org/Infrared-HOWTO/Infrared-HOWTO.html>.
>
>Good luck.
>
>
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> Simon <simon@no-dns-yet.org.uk> **** GPG: F4A23C69
> "We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty."
> - Douglas Adams
>
Hello from the Eighth Doctor
Excuse me. Your right. The userland programs do work, and compile without a
problem. The scripts stored in the /etc directory look to be the ones that I recall
seeing in a Red Hat system earlier this winter. That is the ones Red Hat uses to
configure its ethernet hardware.

As for uses, and applications, communications between an embedded application
which will run Linux, and would be using IRDA for file transfer between the host,
(which is running Slackware Linux 10.0), the embedded application, which will be
built using the same tools, and probably similar hardware.
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Gregg drwho8 atsign att dot net

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 03:55:21 GMT, The Eighth Doctor <drwho8__NOTME__@att.net>
wrote:
[IrDA]
> Excuse me. Your right. The userland programs do work, and compile
> without a problem. The scripts stored in the /etc directory look to
> be the ones that I recall seeing in a Red Hat system earlier this
> winter. That is the ones Red Hat uses to configure its ethernet
> hardware.

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/*, etc?

> As for uses, and applications, communications between an embedded
> application which will run Linux, and would be using IRDA for file
> transfer between the host, (which is running Slackware Linux 10.0),
> the embedded application, which will be built using the same tools,
> and probably similar hardware.

This isn't something that I've tried. I see no one else has yet
replied to anything in this thread. If you're having trouble, if might
be worth either posting the error message here, in case someone has
come across it, Googling for the error message or asking in
comp.os.linux.networking.


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In article <slrncv6bjh.i8i.usenet@dustpuppy.no-dns-yet.org.uk>,
usenet@no-dns-yet.org.uk says...
>
>On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 03:55:21 GMT, The Eighth Doctor
<drwho8__NOTME__@att.net>
>wrote:
>[IrDA]
>> Excuse me. Your right. The userland programs do work, and compile
>> without a problem. The scripts stored in the /etc directory look to
>> be the ones that I recall seeing in a Red Hat system earlier this
>> winter. That is the ones Red Hat uses to configure its ethernet
>> hardware.
>
>/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/*, etc?
>
>> As for uses, and applications, communications between an embedded
>> application which will run Linux, and would be using IRDA for file
>> transfer between the host, (which is running Slackware Linux 10.0),
>> the embedded application, which will be built using the same tools,
>> and probably similar hardware.
>
>This isn't something that I've tried. I see no one else has yet
>replied to anything in this thread. If you're having trouble, if might
>be worth either posting the error message here, in case someone has
>come across it, Googling for the error message or asking in
>comp.os.linux.networking.
>
>
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> Simon <simon@no-dns-yet.org.uk> **** GPG: F4A23C69
> "We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty."
> - Douglas Adams
>
Hello from the Eighth Doctor
Yes, those are the ones. No error messages yet. I'm still working on the endpoints.
The system itself works, the hardware that it talks to, is being developed.

And of course, I'll use the usual resources. Google, comp.os.linux.networking, etc,
also post the messages, when they arrive, here as well..
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On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 20:19:25 GMT, The Eighth Doctor
<drwho8__NOTME__@att.net> probably wrote (unless it was a Kook):
> Hello from the Eighth Doctor
> Has anyone gotten IRDA to work on their systems?
> -
> Gregg drwho8 atsign att dot net
> "This signature is freezing itself on Hoth."
>

Yes. You have to compile IrDA support into the Kernel, and then
pull and compile the irda-utils. Check Freshmeat for the location of
them.


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>On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 20:19:25 GMT, The Eighth Doctor
> <drwho8__NOTME__@att.net> probably wrote (unless it was a Kook):
>> Hello from the Eighth Doctor
>> Has anyone gotten IRDA to work on their systems?
>> -
>> Gregg drwho8 atsign att dot net
>> "This signature is freezing itself on Hoth."
>>
>
>Yes. You have to compile IrDA support into the Kernel, and then
>pull and compile the irda-utils. Check Freshmeat for the location of
>them.
>
>
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Hello from the Eighth Doctor
It happens that I did that. The kernel that I use has those modules available to load.
I also downloaded and built the most recent of their releases, the file irda.txt in the
kernel docs directories contains where to go, and that is what I did.

Now the question becomes: Any suggestions for building a Slackware Package of
the working (for me) IRDA utility programs? Once I get things working on my
laptop, I figure would make a packge of things, so I don't need to repeat building
them on the target as well as the host. And of course offer them to the site from
which I downloaded the source code, with the instructions, giving credit where
credit is do.
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Gregg drwho8 atsign att dot net
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