IRDA and ALCATEL ot557A (fc.x86_64)

[anubis4d]

hi, I´m Marcos Caballero From Argentina.
I have a M620 Infrared usb (i think it is a m620), but I can´t do anything with it.

th KINFOCENTER in the USBdevices says OHCI Host Controler/USB to IRDA,at the rigth this is the output:
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USB to IRDA

Fabricante: Kingsun CO.
clase 0 (defined at interface level)
subclase 0
protocol 0
version usb: 1.10

vendor ID 0x7d0 (dazzle)
productID 0x4959
revision 1.0
speed 1.5 Mbit/s
Channels 0
Max Package size 0
----------------------------------

is not very clear to me how I must configure IRDA (forget about compiling, many things broken :) ) when I do the irdadump the device is not detected (phone in infrared mode of course)

I don´t know how to activate/deactivate irda, from a tuto, I try this, but the device is not there:

lspci -v|grep HCI
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a2) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a2) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
01:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 46) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])

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they also indicate the activation with:
/etc/init.d/irda start
Starting IrDA: DONE
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I tried IRDADUMP, but nothing seems to work. I aso use the scmxx command

scmxx -i
Using "UTF-8" as system character set.
Accessing device /dev/ttyS0...Error in flushing buffers: Argumento inválido
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but I don´t know where is the device in /dev/ircomm0 or /dev/ttyS0

can anyone help me on this, I´m very confused, just need to download photos fromthe alcatel cellphone. Is it so complicated?

I aso downloaded the alcatel PCSUITE, wich runs great in wine, but wine is not detecting the USB-IRDA... can this be done?

thanks anyway, see you
Marquitux, from Argentina
(Fedora core 5 x84-64)

Ps: if there is a solution, coul it be a non-compile-stuff one? my compilation skils are patetic :P

[hlcantony]

I have similar issue - my fc7 couldn't detect my usb dongle.

$ /sbin/lsusb
...
Bus 004 Device 003: ID 07d0:4959 Dazzle
...


$ cat /proc/bus/usb/devices
...
P: Vendor=07d0 ProdID=4959 Rev= 1.00
S: Manufacturer=Kingsun CO.
S: Product=USB to IRDA
...


# dmesg
...
usb 4-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
usb 4-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice


I searched the web for the driver, and I found this website:
http://palosanto.com/~a_villacis/codeprojects/kingsun-linux.en.html

I downloaded the driver for "Kingsun KS-959", which is the version of my dongle, but I failed to compile it.

$ make
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.23.15-80.fc7/build M=`pwd` modules
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.23.15-80.fc7/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: *** [ks959-sir.ko] Error 2

Perhaps I should ask the fedora experts now to configure my computer before installation.

[hlcantony]

You can read the news from here:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Linux-Kernel-2-6-24-Released-77170.shtml


Network drivers
...
• Added IrDA driver for Kingsun Dazzle IrDA USB
• Added IrDA driver for Kingsun KS-959 IrDA USB

Will Fedora finally supports this irda dongle? If so, this will put the end to endless search for the driver.