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Date:      24 Jan 2002 17:21:32 -0500
From:      "Brandon S. Allbery " KF8NH <allbery@ece.cmu.edu>
To:        Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU>
Cc:        Stefan `Sec` Zehl <sec@42.org>, Robert =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Blacqui=E8re?= <freebsd@guldan.demon.nl>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: birda status of the port and more info
Message-ID:  <1011910901.2687.4.camel@pyanfar.ece.cmu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3C5083CE.7020102@isi.edu>
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On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 16:59, Lars Eggert wrote:
> Thanks! I tried that, and it connected once. All repeated connections 
> have failed. I believe it's the infrared part that fails (as opposed to 
> the Palm-syncing over it), since irs doesn't seem to leave its select 
> loop (whan run with debug output).

Odd.  I'd suspect something odd about your IR port itself, since
multiple syncs over IR DTRT for me.

>       To hotsync a palm over irda, use the following commands:
>       irs -c -e -y /dev/ptyqf &
>       pilot-xfer -p /dev/ttyqf -b backup-dir

It seems to default to /dev/ttyS0 if no device is specified, so assuming
that's symlinked (or you use -d /dev/ttyd1 or etc.) it should work.  I
did use something like that for debugging.

-- 
brandon s. allbery   [os/2][linux][solaris][japh]  allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
system administrator      [WAY too many hats]        allbery@ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering                                KF8NH
carnegie mellon university  ["better check the oblivious first" -ke6sls]


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