[gentoo-user] Trying to active the irda into my laptop

[d2clon <d2clon@desarrolladores.org>]

Hi people:

I'm trying to turn on the irda on my laptop but I don't know how to know
which chipset it is, I think I need to know this to know which module I
need to compile in the kernel.

The command 'lspci'[1] does not show me any thing that looks like an
irda. Looking for 'irda' into 'dmesg' neither find any thing.

I have enable the infra-red into bios.

I tryed to follow the tutorial like:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_mobile_phone_connected_with_IrDA

But when I try to turn on the irda I have an error:
# /etc/init.d/irda start
 * Starting IrDA ...
Failed to open device /dev/ttyS2: No such device or address

Maybe I don't active the correct kernel module but I don't know whic one
it es.

I tryed to active all the modules kernel into:
/lib/modules/2.6.15-gentoo-r1/kernel/net/irda/ [2]

Not the /etc/init.d/irda start

Not the irdadump

Not cat /proc/net/irda/irlap

Shows to me some thing.

Any suggestion? Thx.
d2clon


[1]-----------
# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O
Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP
Controller (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2
EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 83)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface
Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE
Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M)
SMBus Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M)
AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 Lf
[FireGL 9000] (rev 02)
02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705
Gigabit Ethernet (rev 01)
02:04.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B
Mini PCI Adapter (rev 04)
02:06.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ601/6912/711E0
CardBus/SmartCardBus Controller
02:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB21
IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)

[2]--------------
#  ls -l /lib/modules/2.6.15-gentoo-r1/kernel/drivers/net/irda/
total 228
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18630 Aug 23 12:07 ali-ircc.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15052 Aug 23 12:07 donauboe.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16132 Aug 23 12:07 irda-usb.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  9150 Aug 23 12:07 irtty-sir.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22099 Aug 23 12:07 nsc-ircc.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20311 Aug 23 12:07 sir-dev.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24739 Aug 23 12:07 smsc-ircc2.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15677 Aug 23 12:07 stir4200.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28551 Aug 23 12:07 via-ircc.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32156 Aug 23 12:07 vlsi_ir.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14490 Aug 23 12:07 w83977af_ir.ko
biit ~ # modprobe ali-ircc
FATAL: Error inserting ali_ircc
(/lib/modules/2.6.15-gentoo-r1/kernel/drivers/net/irda/ali-ircc.ko): No
such device
biit ~ # modprobe donauboe
biit ~ # modprobe irda-usb
biit ~ # modprobe irtty-sir
biit ~ # modprobe nsc-ircc
biit ~ # modprobe sir-dev
biit ~ # modprobe smsc-ircc2
FATAL: Error inserting smsc_ircc2
(/lib/modules/2.6.15-gentoo-r1/kernel/drivers/net/irda/smsc-ircc2.ko):
No such device
biit ~ # modprobe stir4200
biit ~ # modprobe via-ircc
biit ~ # modprobe vlsi_ir
biit ~ # modprobe w83977af_ir
FATAL: Error inserting w83977af_ir
(/lib/modules/2.6.15-gentoo-r1/kernel/drivers/net/irda/w83977af_ir.ko):
No such device



biit ~ # lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
vlsi_ir                25480  0
via_ircc               25108  0
nsc_ircc               16444  0
irtty_sir               6784  0
sir_dev                15564  1 irtty_sir
irda_usb               12036  0
donauboe               12032  0
ircomm_tty             22920  0
ircomm                 12676  1 ircomm_tty
stir4200               12420  0
irda                  123064  9
vlsi_ir,via_ircc,nsc_ircc,sir_dev,irda_usb,donauboe,ircomm_tty,ircomm,stir4200
crc_ccitt               2816  3 vlsi_ir,donauboe,irda
ieee80211_crypt_wep     5248  1
ipw2100               136932  0
ieee80211              46696  1 ipw2100
ieee80211_crypt         6016  2 ieee80211_crypt_wep,ieee80211
snd_intel8x0           30876  2
snd_ac97_codec         94496  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_ac97_bus            2944  1 snd_ac97_codec


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