In message <20030522164929.GD3055@apb.cequrux.com>, Alan Barrett writes:
>I recently acquired a nearly-new Dell Latitude D600 to replace my
>7-year-old laptop.
>
>Several things just work.  Several things don't work.  Some may be bugs,
>some are unimplemented features that I wish for, and some may be due to
>my own stupidity.  I'd appreciate advice about the latter.
>

>* I don't know how to make the IrDA port work.
>
>  NetBSD sees "com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3: ns16550a, working fifo".
>
>  I don't know how to make NetBSD do IrDA stuff over this port.
>
>  Windows XP says it's a "SMC IrCC - Fast Infrared Port", and claims to
>  be using the same IRQ and ports as NetBSD, but also claims to be using
>  additional IO ports 0x280-0x287 and DMA channel 3, which NetBSD is not
>  using.

What I do on my IBM Thinkpad T21 is 

/usr/sbin/irdaattach -f tty01 && echo irdaattach
/usr/pkg/bin/irs -Y -c -y /dev/ptyqf -d /dev/irframe0 && echo irs

No idea about the DMA stuff or the other ports.


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
		http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)