IrDA on FC6 and zd7000?

[skeptic]

I've done some searching here as well as google. From what I've found, it seems that IrDA should pretty much just work with what comes with the distro. Other people have reported with other distros that simply enabling IrDA works.


findchip -d -v comes back with no known chip detected.

lspci shows no IrDA device.

lsmod shows irda and sir modules loaded (I'd cut and paste but it's a different computer).

ifconfig -a shows no IrDA device

irattach /dev/ttyS[1-4] + irdadump doesn't come back with anything (pointing a TV remote and pushing buttons).

One older link I found (and can't find now) mentioned support for the chips in some laptops, including HP, is supported in the 2.6 kernels that had apparently just come out at the time.

Any advice?

[clearer]

If you found out anything about this, please let me know.

[skeptic]

I've decided to go back to gentoo for my mythfrontend laptop (been a few years). As solid and easy as Fedora is, the need for 3rd party repositories which are not always compatible, as well as precompiled binaries which may or may not have the required support (h.264) has prompted me to try doing this with gentoo. Don't worry, I'm not changing my desktop/mythbackend quite yet, it's staying FC.

If I get the remote working under gentooo I'll try to remember to post in this thread how I did it. If I can get it going under gentoo it can be done under FC as well. But if I'm going back to compiling the kernel and possibly other packages I'd rather be running gentoo.

[HarshReality]

IRDA works just gotta tweak it

[Brathering]

IRDA works just gotta tweak it
But how? Can You explain, please?

[HarshReality]

Well Originally I had slackware and tried FC and currently using Ubuntu however in all 3 cases when I wanted to get it woking I went here...

zd7000: Slackware on the HP Pavilion (http://home.satx.rr.com/thegood/linux-pages/linux.html)

I will say now though, the SD Card Reader will not work... it did in a few previous kernels when it was controlled by hotplug but as soon as some brainiac decided to pull that and make the whole thing a module and based the TI in the kernel it all turned to ****.

Hope you find the page as useful as I did... I still use it when I get to playing.