freebsd stable - Jul 2005 - IrDA question

Hi,
   I have been having some problems getting the Ir device on my laptop 
working. The device is listed as serial port B and a FIR device in BIOS, 
the laptop motherboard is an Intel 855pm (the Ir device is onboard).

dmesg shows that the device is detected and listed as a serial device. 
Because BIOS listed it as serial port B I am assuming it is sio1;

sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10
onacpi0
sio0: type 16550A
sio1 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 drq 1 on acpi0
sio1: type 16550A

I have installed birda and can run irs. When I type the follwing irs 
starts but when I use my mobile phone to search for a device or send a 
file the phone reports 'No device found'.

irs -v 1 -e -c -y /dev/ptypv -d /dev/cuaa1

I do not understand why this is happening as I have specifiede the 'c' 
option so irs runs as a COMM server. I also set 'y' to use a psudo 
terminal. Do I need a specific application like pilot-link for palm to 
communicatate over the Ir link that irs has initiated?

Thanks,

caleb



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On Thursday 21 July 2005 05:12, caleb wrote:
> I have installed birda and can run irs. When I type the follwing irs
> starts but when I use my mobile phone to search for a device or send a
> file the phone reports 'No device found'.
>
> irs -v 1 -e -c -y /dev/ptypv -d /dev/cuaa1
>
> I do not understand why this is happening as I have specifiede the
'c'
> option so irs runs as a COMM server. I also set 'y' to use a psudo
> terminal. Do I need a specific application like pilot-link for palm to
> communicatate over the Ir link that irs has initiated?
Are you sure the port is right? Tried cuaa0?
I have gotten my laptop (Dell Inspiron 8600) to talk to my phone (Nokia 8210) 
and Pocket PC using IRDA.

I use ircomm though, ie
[inchoate 10:07] ~ >sudo ircomm -d /dev/cuad1 -y /dev/ptypv -v 2
discovered Nokia 8210, address=75a2, hints=PnP, Modem, Fax, Telephony, IrCOMM, 
IrOBEX
query completed
115200 baud
LAP connected
comm connected


Now I can do, say,
[inchoate 10:12] ~ >cu -l /dev/ttypv -s 57600
can't open log file /var/log/aculog.
Connected
atz
OK
AT+CMGF=1
OK
AT+CMGS="0403070726"
> testing 123
> ?
+CMGS: 221

OK

One this I have noticed is that my phone is *extremely* sensitive to 
positioning which is rather annoying.. It has to be 15-20cm away otherwise it 
won't work (closer is as bad as far away).

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The port is definitely sio1/cuaa1. I tried to run ircomm while irs was 
still running and got;

cannot open pty

I killed irs and used;

ircomm -d /dev/cuaa1 -y /dev/ptypv -v 2 and I get the following output;


localhost# ircomm -d /dev/cuaa1 -y /dev/ptypv -v 2
query completed
query completed
query completed
query completed
query completed
query completed
query completed
query completed
query completed
query completed
No peer station found

The mobile phone had Ir switched on and I have tried running the command 
from various distances.

caleb
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