Irda usb dongle - Y-160 [SOLVED]

Koxta · Last edited by Koxta on Sat Aug 14, 2004 12:54 am; edited 1 time in total

Hi! I'm trying to make this usb dongle work. Does anyone has this (or similar) dongle model? Which kernel module should I use (irda-usb or stir4200)? What should I put into the /etc/conf.d/irda file?

Any help would be appreciated :-)

Regards,

Jurek 'Koxta' Bartuszek

Koxta · Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 9:44 am Post subject:

Anyone?

Koxta · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 12:53 am Post subject:

I've just solved it. It works perfectly with stir4200 module.

Regards,

Jurek 'Koxta' Bartuszek

dextur · n00b Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 44 Location: Stockholm

I am just trying to get mine working. Could you tell me what you had to do?

Koxta · Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 9:12 am Post subject:

Well, not much ;-)

I've just compiled the stir4200 support as a module and during boot Gentoo detects the Sigmatel dongle and loads stir4200 automatically

Regards,

Jurek 'Koxta' Bartuszek
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kLy · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Feb 2005 Posts: 108

hi. I know this is an old thread but can koxta tell me how he got the thing to work?

I've got the stir4200 module up and running fine but what device is it in /dev? What can I put into /etc/conf.d/irda? I'm at a loss on how to get it to interface with my programs. Can I get lirc and stuff working with it? If not what can I actually use it for? What did you do?

Thanks

The Sentry · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 11:31 pm Post subject:

Hi!

I hope koxta answers, because I have the same problem. I've searched the net now for quite a time and I found out, that after loading the stir4200 module and doing

Koxta · Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 12:11 am Post subject:

Hi!

Frankly, I do not remember how did I force this dongle to cooperate with my cell phone. I also do not remember what were the inputs for /etc/conf.d/irda. However, I still recieve questions regarding this piece of hardware, therefore I'm going to take my notebook and the dongle and try to remind myself which steps did I take. I hope I will be helpful.

One more thing... tell me exactly what would you like to do with the dongle, please.

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Jurek Bartuszek
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The Sentry · Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 9:29 am Post subject:

Thanks for your quick answer!

First of all, I managed to get it working in a way (last night at 3 o'clock), which is uncomfortable but nevertheless can be useful.

I have a Siemens CX65 cell phone and want to have access to its FlexMem to copy the SMS to my laptop (I'm archiving them). Since my Laptop doesn't have a IrDA device, I bought a USB adapter from SigmaTel.

Here is, what I did:
- compiled a new kernel with the necessary modules enabled (stir4200, irda, ircomm, ircomm-tty)
- somehow managed hotplug to automaticly load the driver stir4200, when I plug in the IrDA device

kLy · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Feb 2005 Posts: 108

hi. I've emerge irda-utils since the start, but irattach never got installed for some reason. I have no idea why.

The Sentry · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 1:29 pm Post subject:

Try to re-emerge it, cause it definitly belongs to the package:

kLy · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Feb 2005 Posts: 108

strange because I did re-emerge it a few times and it never showed up. And there's not even any use flags to fiddle with. Hmm... I'll try diff versions and see if that does anything.

By the way, apparently it's not possible for the dongle to interface with something like LIRC right? Other than a general remote jobbie (which doesn't seem possible now), I just use it for transferring stuff to and from my phone, which seems to be a mission in itself. Sigh. I will persevere!

Thanks

The Sentry · Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 6:43 pm Post subject:

afaik there's no way to use IrDA für LIRC, they're two different things.

kLy · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Feb 2005 Posts: 108

There's an app in doze called SlyControl. It lets you use your TV card IrDA receptor to interface with something like LIRC. Is there something like this for Linux?

kLy · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Feb 2005 Posts: 108

ok, I've managed to get irda-utils emerged properly, but when trying to use irattach, I get this:

The Sentry · Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 5:50 pm Post subject:

My /etc/conf.d/irda says:

kLy · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Feb 2005 Posts: 108

how do you get /dev/ ircomm0 to work? what is the actual IR device in /dev? followed instructions here but not helping

http://www.tuxmobil.org/Infrared-HOWTO/Infrared-HOWTO.html

I know I have irda up properly, since if I have my phone in range, I can get this on irdadump:

kLy · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Feb 2005 Posts: 108

hey... made a new thread here since this one is old, has to do with something else, and is marked as solved:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2484817.html

E001754 · Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 6:10 pm Post subject:

A little help would be appreciated :

I've got a STIR4200 USB Dongle.
It seems to work, since with "irdadump", I can see that my Nokia phone is detected.

However, "irattach irda0 -s" doesn't create any node in /dev/.
My kernel is 2.6.16 and I'm using udev.

I checked in /proc/net/irda/irlap and get that