- BIOS
- Make sure your infrared port is enabled in the BIOS and check what interrupt and port address it uses.
- Infrared Controller Chip
- Make sure your infrared port is detected by the Linux kernel. For detailed information see the "Hardware Overview" section below.
- modutils
- Make sure you use modutils 2.1.x by insmod --version. I use version 2.1.121.
- Shared Library
- The shared library libc.so.5 and the loader ld-linux.so.1 has to be available.
- But glibc2 aka libc6 should work also.
- I am not sure wether you need the zlib library if you use the data compression features.
- GUI
Currently there are two GraphicalUserInterface's for Linux/IrDA under development:
- GNOBEX
A GNOME application developed by Dag Brattli
http://www.cs.uit.no/~dagb/irda/irda.html with support for drag'n drop from the GNOME file manager (gmc). It will also show the progress of the file transfer and give some better error messages when something goes wrong. The GUI isn't finished yet, but if you want to try the GUI you will need the Perl-GTK+ module.
- KDE
A KDE application developed by Thomas Davis. Look at his page
http://www.jps.net/tadavis/irda.
For all you lurkers out - here's your chance to contribute! Both GUI's need some icons. Any icons need to be:
a) set size (48x48 pixels seems to be a common size, I think)
b) large & mini (ask about size for that; mini's are for docking and such)
c) 16 colors
d) free for use.
e) please, don't blatently copy MS icons!
Please contact the developers.
- Security
- Most important, you must sync your disks!!! Maybe you have to reboot your machine. Have you read the disclaimer?
- Miscellaneous
- Other useful progs: APSFILTER, EZ-Magic, MagicFilter or something similar for the printer configuration.
