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Aha! I have a CLIE! Now how the heck do i get it to work with Linux???
Two possible methods:
1) Use VMWare version 3 to connect the USB hotsync cable to a windows host - Err... VMWare is still beta, and i'll have to carry around the hotsync cadle everywhere!
2) (Somehow) get IrDA to work on Linux (Mandrake 8.0) and assign this as a serial port from which hotsyncing can commence.
I'll probably do the latter... these are my findings;
IrDA
Right, i think i have IrDA modules installed - at bootup, it says it is initiating IrDA, and using the IrDA_Utils RPM's findchip -v command gives:
[ytl@Yees_VAIO]# findchip -v Found SMC FDC37N958FR Controller at 0x370, DevID=0x01, Rev. 1 SIR Base 0x3e8, FIR Base 0x140 IRQ = 10, DMA = 1 Enabled: yes, Suspended: no UART compatible: yes Half duplex delay = 3 us |
That at least shows that my laptop has a irda controller (it should, it worked perfectly under windoze...)
Read on the interenet that there may be problems with the BIOS settings not being the same as that recognised by the kernel... and sure enough, checking through my kernel messages showed that;
ttyS00 at 0x0f8 (IRQ = 4) is 16550A ttyS02 at 0x3e8 (IRQ = 4) is 16550 |
My BIOS settings, were however,
Serial IrDA Base 0x3e8 Interrupt IRQ 10 DMA Channel 0 FIR Baes I/O 140 |
So using the command
[ytl@Yees_VAIO]# setserial /dev/ttyS2 irq 10 port 0x3e8 |
Should get set the IrDA correctly.
Running irdadump...
18:43:51.752952 xid:rsp 019c0356 < d35cb91a S=6 s=0
Palm III hint=8220 [ PDA/Palmtop IrOBEX ] (26)
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Which shows that the palm is at least recognised by linux!
As irda run on startup, all the necessary /dev/ files seem to be there, so now i have to modify the modules.conf file in /etc/.
# IrLAN alias irlan0 irlan # IrDA over normal serial port, or serial port irda port alias tty-ldisc-11 irtty # IrCOMM for printing, minicom etc. alias char-major-161 ircomm-tty alias irlan0 irlan alias irda0 smc-ircc # |
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