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Description of problem:
Running command

service irda start

displays `OK' message, but IrDA does not work - command

service irda status

displays `irattach is stopped' and the following messages appear
in /var/log/messages:

Feb 15 07:52:37 bat irattach: irattach: tty: set_disc(11): Bad file
descriptor 
Feb 15 07:52:37 bat irattach: Stopping device /dev/ttyS1
Feb 15 07:52:37 bat irattach: ioctl(SIOCGIFFLAGS): No such device
Feb 15 07:52:37 bat irattach: exiting ... 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
irda-utils-0.9.16-3

How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run command: service irda start
(`OK' message is displayed)
2. Run command: service irda status


Actual Results:  `irattach is stopped' messages is displayed

Expected Results:  Message `irattach (pid XXX) is running...' and IrDA
should work.

Additional info:

Proposed fix: It seems that /etc/rc.d/init.d/irda should contain

/sbin/modprobe irtty_sir 2>/dev/null

line - in addition to (or instead of?) the line

/sbin/modprobe ircomm-tty 2>/dev/null

If I run

modprobe irtty_sir
irattach /dev/ttyS1 -s

messages

Feb 15 08:32:24 bat irattach: executing: 'echo bat >
/proc/sys/net/irda/devname'
Feb 15 08:32:24 bat irattach: executing: 'echo 1 >
/proc/sys/net/irda/discovery'
Feb 15 08:32:24 bat irattach: Starting device irda0

will appear in /var/log/messages and IrDA begin to work.

Contents of my /etc/sysconfig/irda:
-----------------------------------------------------------------
IRDA=yes
DEVICE=/dev/ttyS1
#DONGLE=actisys+
DISCOVERY=yes
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Contents of my /etc/modprobe.conf:
-----------------------------------------------------------------
alias eth0 3c59x
#alias eth1 orinoco_cs
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
options snd-card-0 index=0  
install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-intel8x0 &&
/usr/sbin/a
lsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ;
}; /sbin/mo
dprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
alias usb-controller uhci-hcd
alias net-pf-31 bluez
alias bt-proto-0 l2cap
alias bt-proto-2 sco
alias bt-proto-3 rfcomm
alias tty-ldisc-11 irtty
alias char-major-161 ircomm-tty
alias irda0 irport
-----------------------------------------------------------------

After loading irtty_sir (which in turn loads sir_dev) commands
service irda {stop,start,status} work as expected.