I got this working in Feisty for my laptop. There is a problem with the driver for my irda chip (bug 133169).
Check your syslog to see if an SMSC irda chip is detected when you boot. If it is, putting these two lines at the bottom of /etc/modprobe.d/irda- utils might solve the problem: options smsc-ircc2 ircc_irq=4 alias irda0 smsc-ircc2 -- irda-utils error when starting the initscript https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/121371 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
