Russell McManus <russell_mcmanus@yahoo.com> writes:

> Urban Boquist <urban@boquist.net> writes:
> 
> > >>>>> Russell McManus writes:
> > 
> > Russell> Any ideas how to figure out what device my thinkpad is using
> > Russell> for IrDA?  I grepped through the output of dmesg, and googled
> > Russell> a bit, but I haven't found any information.
> > 
> > You should look for a line starting with "irframe0", something like:
> > 
> > irframe0 at oboe0: SIR, MIR, FIR
> > 
> > but I don't think you will find it on a thinkpad. The other
> > possibility is that the BIOS makes the IrDA port show up as a normal
> > serial port. So look again at dmesg output for lines like:
> > 
> > com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
> > com1 at isa0 port 0x3e8-0x3ef irq 5: ns16550a, working fifo
> > 
> > if it shows more lines than you know that the machine has serial ports
> > (I would guess that it has only one), one of them may be your IrDA
> > port. Just try pilot-xfer directly on the corresponding device, e.g.,
> > /dev/tty01.
> 
> Thanks to your pointer, I have verified that the Thinkpad 600 is
> indeed one of those models for which the IrDA interface appears as a
> normal serial port.  
> 
> IBM provides DOS and NT configuration programs which enable/disable
> the actual serial port on the box, as well as the IrDA port.  I've
> downloaded the NT version of this program, and run it successfully; I
> disabled the serial port and enabled the IrDA interface.  
> 
> During boot I get a message from dmesg like so:
> 
>   com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
> 
> I assume that this maps to /dev/tty00.  Unfortunately, when I try
> pilot-xfer /dev/tty00 --list, and then try to sync, it just hangs.
> :-(

Kind of silly to follow up to myself, but I had a flash of insight,
and the following worked right:

  irs -c -e -y /dev/ptyqf -d /dev/tty00 &
  pilot-xfer -p /dev/ttyqf --list

Thanks for all the help, this is very cool.

-russ