IRDA and Palm

[Jason Shein]

On January 6, 2005 03:11 pm, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 10:07:14AM +0000, Jason Shein wrote:
> > Anyone here managed to sync a palm unit and a laptop using IRDA?
> >
> > Toshiba Satellite 1900
> > Treo 600 runing PalmOS5 ( visor )
> >
> > Debian unstable
> >
> > Packages:
> > kpilot
> > irda-common
> > irda-tools
> >
> > irda-utils ( current replacement for irda-common & irda-tools ) will not
> > install for some reason. the pre-install script errors out every time.
> >
> > irdadump sees nothing when I attempt to hotsync.
>
> So far I found pilot-link and jpilot to work for syncing my Tungsten E
> (palm os 5) while kpilot couldn't even find it.  Pretty typical kde
> application problem in my experience. :)
>
> This is over usb link.  None of my machines have IR unfortunately.
>
> Do you have an IR driver loaded?  As in a kernel module for doing IR.
> Utilities alone isn't enough.
>

I am using kpilot on all my machines with no effort at all. It works over USB 
on the satellite but I would prefer to be able to use the IRDA while mobile. 

I have no experience using IRDA under linux and the information I come across 
is of little assistance.

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