irda connection

[Martijn van de Streek]

On Tue, 07 Jun 2005, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> > Any Ubuntu / GNOME / fd.o developers on this list reading this? Is this
> > possible to do in project Utopia so users don't have to do trouble
> > shooting like this? I used quite some time to figure it out. First I had
> > to figure out I needed to edit /etc/defaults/irda-utils (filed bug
> > #11401 before that), then I had to figure out this last thing.
> 
> At the moment? No. It's *hard* to figure out which device corresponds to
> IR on a laptop. I'm looking into it, but don't expect this stuff to work
> by default for a while.

Have a look at bug #2129 (still not fixed, upstream issue), it might
help.

My new Acer notebook has the same NSC6001 PnP device as my 5-year-old
Asus for IRDA, but the driver doesn't use isapnp properly, so the driver
doesn't get loaded.

Martijn
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