Re: [SLUG] USB IrDA attachment

From: Mario Lombardo (mario@alienscience.com)
Date: Wed Mar 09 2005 - 18:31:16 EST


Yes, it appears this way. However, since it has IR, I thought it was even
simpler to just appear as a /dev/ircomm0 or something. I mean isn't IrDA
more complex than ircomm? I just want to control stuff w/o the networking
overhead.

/mario

On Wednesday 09 March 2005 15:55, Steven Buehler wrote:
> Looks like it's trying to set it up as a network device rather than a
> serial device.
>
> SWB
>
> On Mar 9, 2005, at 3:22 PM, Mario Lombardo wrote:
> > "ifconfig irda0" says this:
> >
> > irda0 Link encap:IrLAP HWaddr 00:00:00:00
> > NOARP MTU:2048 Metric:1
> > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> > TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> > collisions:0 txqueuelen:8
> > RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> >
> > I hope I can still use this thing as a remote control device. That's
> > why I
> > bought it.
> >
> > /mario
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