Hi I'm determined that one day I may actually be able to get my Irda port working on my Debian GNU/Linux laptop. The Irda port is /dev/ircomm0.
I've now found out that although I'm used to using Irda with and SuSE latop - plug in hard drives - the list of instructions that is used to start the software is completely diferent than those used to start the same software in an SuSE system. Looking into the docs I find that I can edit the /etc/irda/drivers file so that /dev/ircomm0 is defined. Then when I type in '/etc/init.d/irmanager start' it says ... Starting IrDA manager: sh: /proc/sys/net/irda/devname: No such file or directory. Looking at it there is nothing in /sys/net. No config files or anything. I've attached /dev/ircomm0 which is the IF port. Also tried Irdadump but that doesn't work either. Probably because I can't start irmanager. Can anyone explain why I can't get Irmanager to start ? Must be a good reason for it. I've installed .. irda-common 0.9.5-2 ... and ... irda-tools 0.9.5-2 ... is there any other Irda package that I should install ? I was able to meet Nokubi Takatsugu at the New York Linux Expo at the Javits Center last month. He's a really nice fella but he says he's not very good at English. Which probably explains why I can't get any help with my Irda problems. Thanks -- Richard
