Package: irda-utils
Version: 0.9.16-11
Severity: normal
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IRDA has worked on my laptop on all kernels up to and including
2.6.16. With 2.6.17 (linux-image-2.6.17-1-686 ver 2.6.17-2), I am
unable to sync my Palm, and irdadump doesn't output anything.
I guess this may either be 2.6.17 having broken IRDA, or something
changed so that irda-utils needs to be updated. Here is the IRDA part
of the 2.6.17 changelog:
* TOIM3232 dongle support: Here goes a patch for supporting
TOIM3232 based serial IrDA dongles
* nsc-ircc: support for yet another Thinkpad IrDA chipset, a
variation of the nsc-ircc PC8739x chipset, found in some IBM
Thinkpad laptops
* nsc-ircc: Enable PnP support for the nsc-ircc chipset
* Support for Sigmatel STIR421x chip
I do in fact have a Thinkpad, a 4 years old T23. findchip reports
nothing.
Here's what is written to the log when /etc/init.d/irda-utils start is
run:
Jul 9 21:58:52 localhost kernel: ttyS1: LSR safety check engaged!
Jul 9 21:58:52 localhost irattach: Stopping device /dev/ttyS1
Jul 9 21:58:52 localhost irattach: ioctl(SIOCGIFFLAGS): No such device
Jul 9 21:58:52 localhost irattach: exiting ...
If you believe this is a kernel bug, feel free to reassign.
Regards
Jon
Jon Kåre Hellan, Trondheim, Norway
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'),
(499, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages irda-utils depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.2 Debian configuration
management sy
ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared
libraries
ii libglib1.2 1.2.10-10.1 The GLib library of C
routines
ii makedev 2.3.1-82 creates device files
in /dev
ii module-init-tools 3.2.2-3 tools for managing Linux
kernel mo
Versions of packages irda-utils recommends:
pn ircp <none> (no description available)
ii openobex-apps 1.3-1 Applications for OpenOBEX
-- debconf information:
irda-utils/firopt:
* irda-utils/dongle: none
* irda-utils/enable: true
* irda-utils/discovery: true
* irda-utils/ttydev: /dev/ttyS1
irda-utils/setserial:
* irda-utils/selectdevice: serial
irda-utils/firdev: nsc-ircc
