From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-0.99.23 i686) after loading the irda modules, first a warning is issued: Warning: /lib/modules/2.4.0-0.99.23/kernel/net/irda/irda.o symbol for parameter irda_debug not found then detection of the Siemens S35i with switched on IR (checked with 2 different mobile phones) does not work. It is not reported in /proc/net/irda/discovery. Furthermore, as expected, attaching the modem does not work,... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. load modules (follow the Infrared-HOWTO) 2. switch on IR on Siemens S35i put the sensors near each other 3. cat /proc/net/irda/discovery Expected Results: IrLMP should have detected the Siemens S35i within at most one minute. Afterwards cat /proc/net/irda/discovery should have shown the detected mobile phone. It neither works with 2.4.0-0.99.11 nor with 2.4.0-0.99.23. It had worked w/o problems with 2.2.16 from RedHat 7.0. System is a Asus L8400C laptop. At the end a complete dmesg dump is included. lsmod: irtty 5680 0 (unused) irda 87216 0 [irtty] maestro3 25024 1 (autoclean) ac97_codec 7888 0 (autoclean) [maestro3] soundcore 4336 2 (autoclean) [maestro3] appletalk 19104 12 (autoclean) parport_pc 17808 1 (autoclean) lp 5584 1 (autoclean) parport 24768 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp] ds 7216 2 i82365 12832 2 pcmcia_core 42720 0 [ds i82365] autofs 11152 1 (autoclean) 8139too 16544 1 (autoclean) agpgart 23360 0 (unused) nls_iso8859-1 2880 1 (autoclean) nls_cp437 4384 1 (autoclean) vfat 11408 1 (autoclean) fat 32032 0 (autoclean) [vfat] usb-uhci 22176 0 (unused) usbcore 48976 1 [usb-uhci] from /var/log/messages: Feb 25 21:01:33 isengard irattach: tcsetattr: Input/output error Feb 25 21:01:33 isengard 1.1 Tue Nov 9 15:30:55 1999 Dag Brattli Feb 25 21:01:33 isengard irattach: 1.1 Tue Nov 9 15:30:55 1999 Dag Brattli Feb 25 21:01:33 isengard irattach: 1.1 Tue Nov 9 15:30:55 1999 Dag Brattli Feb 25 21:01:33 isengard irda: irattach startup succeeded Feb 25 21:01:51 isengard kernel: IrCOMM protocol (Dag Brattli) dmesg: Linux version 2.4.0-0.99.23 (root.redhat.com) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.0)) #1 Tue Feb 6 02:34:20 EST 2001 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 000000000009f400 @ 0000000000000000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0000000000000c00 @ 000000000009f400 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000016c00 @ 00000000000e9400 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000007ef0000 @ 0000000000100000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000000fc00 @ 0000000007ff0000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 0000000000000400 @ 0000000007fffc00 (ACPINVS) BIOS-e820: 0000000000016c00 @ 00000000fffe9400 (reserved) On node 0 totalpages: 32752 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 28656 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=306 BOOT_FILE=/boot/vmlinuz Initializing CPU#0 Detected 651.485 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 1300.88 BogoMIPS Memory: 126552k/131008k available (998k kernel code, 4068k reserved, 387k data, 220k init, 0k highmem) Dentry-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0 CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 256K Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: After generic, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 03 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.37 (20001109) Richard Gooch (rgooch.au) mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd9a6, last bus=1 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent Unknown bridge resource 2: assuming transparent PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/7110] at 00:07.0 PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:0a.0 PCI: The same IRQ used for device 01:00.0 got res[10000000:10000fff] for resource 0 of Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II got res[10001000:10001fff] for resource 0 of Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (#2) Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers. isapnp: Scanning for Pnp cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket DMI 2.1 present. 27 structures occupying 908 bytes. DMI table at 0x000F00F0. BIOS Vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD BIOS Version: 0110 BIOS Release: 11/09/00 System Vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.. Product Name: L8400C series Notebook PC. Version CPU Module, VGA Board. Serial Number 000000000. Board Vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.. Board Name: L8400C Main Board. Board Version: raoa`. Asset Tag: No Asset Tag. apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.14) Starting kswapd v1.8 pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured block: queued sectors max/low 84045kB/63034kB, 256 slots per queue RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 PIIX4: chipset revision 1 PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcd0-0xfcd7, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:DMA hda: IBM-DJSA-220, ATA DISK drive hdb: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-C2402, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 hda: 39070080 sectors (20004 MB) w/1874KiB Cache, CHS=2584/240/63, UDMA(33) Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 > hda4 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 LVM version 0.9 by Heinz Mauelshagen (13/11/2000) lvm -- Driver successfully initialized Serial driver version 5.02 (2000-08-09) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A Real Time Clock Driver v1.10d atp.c:v1.09 8/9/2000 Donald Becker <becker> http://www.scyld.com/network/atp.html md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096 NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192) NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 220k freed Adding Swap: 264560k swap-space (priority -1) usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.251 $ time 02:45:06 Feb 6 2001 usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:07.2 PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:08.0 usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xfce0, IRQ 9 usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 94M agpgart: Detected Intel 440BX chipset agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf8000000 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.14a loaded PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:08.0 PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:07.2 eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xc886bc00, 00:e0:18:19:7f:ba, IRQ 9 eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C' eth0: Setting half-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 0000. Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.22 options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm] Intel PCIC probe: Intel i82365sl B step ISA-to-PCMCIA at port 0x3e0 ofs 0x00, 2 sockets host opts [0]: none host opts [1]: none ISA irqs (default) = 3,4,5,7,10,11,12,15 polling interval = 1000 ms cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean. cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean. cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x378-0x37f 0x398-0x39f 0x4d0-0x4d7 cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean. Winbond Super-IO detection, now testing ports 3F0,370,250,4E,2E ... SMSC Super-IO detection, now testing Ports 2F0, 370 ... parport0: PC-style at 0x378[PCSPP,TRISTATE] parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(18) parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(18) parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(18) parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(18) lp0: using parport0 (polling). lp0: console ready NET4: AppleTalk 0.18 for Linux NET4.0 maestro3: version 1.20 built at 02:44:42 Feb 6 2001 PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:06.0 PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:06.1 maestro3: Configuring ESS Allegro found at IO 0xF800 IRQ 10 maestro3: subvendor id: 0x10491043 ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x4583:0x8308 (Unknown) IrCOMM protocol (Dag Brattli) BTW. this dmesg dump contains a further seems-to-me-bug. The 'Board Version:' string contains unprintable characters, which are also printed at boot time.
Can you try with the Wolverine kernel (2.4.1-0.1.9), this kernel has several IrDA related bugfixes.