Subject: Re: IRDA and Alpha?
From: Jeff DeMaagd (jdemaa17@calvin.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 03 1999 - 07:19:38 PDT
I'd sure like IRDA someday, but I have no use for it yet. I'm not sure it
is worth the hassle and resources for me. Are there any adaptors that
connect to the serial port? I don't use serial ports anyways. You
could also let the kernel dev team know about this problem.
Jeff DeMaagd
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Nils Faerber wrote:
> I just purchased an IRDA adapter card for my Alpha and wondered why the IRDA
> drivers are not included into the Alpha configuration. After including them
> and building the modules everything seemed fine. The modules load OK and the
> IRDA utils compile and run fine too.
> But as soon as the first IRDA traffic comes through the machine panics. OK,
> the drivers were not included for some good reason ;)
> But someone must have excluded them.
> What I would like to know now is who first ran into troubles with IRDA on
> Alpha and had them removed? Are there any starting points to look at?
> Debugging modules is quite difficult (AFAIK) so it would be nice to have
> some staring point from where to go on. Wouldn't IRDA support for Alpha be
> nice? I think so...
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