Re: IrDA and PCMCIA

From: Igmar Palsenberg (maillist@chello.nl)
Date: Sat Sep 02 2000 - 17:12:32 EDT

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    > ...
    > Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.11
    > options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
    > Yenta IRQ list 0698, PCI irq11
    > ...

    The PCMCIA IRQ probes can hang the system if it probes the wrong IRQ. Fix
    your PCMCIA config.

    > Without the next line. I don't know what's wrong on my side --
    > kernel 2.2.16 worked just fine... There is a possibility, that I'll check
    > later, 'cause it can be my modification to get_random_bytes that just
    > returns with exit code 1 instead of writing anything to the text console.
    >
    > 2. the second issue is not so simple. When I load some modules for
    > my IrDA to work:
    >
    > ircomm-tty 18376 0 (unused)
    > ircomm 6648 0 [ircomm-tty]
    > irtty 5092 2
    > irport 4544 0 (unused)
    > irda 75201 2 [ircomm-tty ircomm irtty irport]
    >
    > and fire up irattach and irmanager (btw, smc-ircc module doesn't
    > work... Maybe i've got to supply some IO addresses, but I don't know them
    > and it's my first day of playing with this...) with devices discovery on,
    > it doesn't discover anything. (If anyone want, I can check if it does emit
    > any kind of infrared then with my Palm, but for the tests I've been using
    > Nokia 7110 mobile phone). When I remove my Xircom CEM-56 PCMCIA card from
    > it's slot, suddenly... there is my phone discovered! And if I put this
    > PCMCIA card do it's slot, IrDA connection and pc card are working
    > seamlessly.
    >
    > What should I do? Is this a bug? If so, can I help? I am not a
    > coder... and I'm NOT subscribed to this list (I can't fetch it using my
    > 28k8 dialup connection), so PLEASE CC: every mail in reply to this to
    > me...

    Please post this to the PCMCIA list / developers. Seems like things bite
    eachother.

            Igmar

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