IrDA dongle ceased to work when I upgraded to Debian Lenny

[Hetz Ben Hamo]

Hi Omer,

This could be from the "hotplug" script not knowing what to do with your dongle.

My suggestion would be:

1. see whats your system writes to /var/log/messages
2. rmmod the module and modprobe it while the device is connected. By
doing modprobe, it should do all the stuff needed (create device, show
the device name in /var/log/messages) and show some status about it.

Hope this helps,
Hetz

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:55 PM, Omer Zak <w1 at zak.co.il> wrote:
> Using lsusb, the dongle in question identifies itself as:
> ID 050f:0180 KC Technology, Inc. KC-180 IrDA Dongle
>
> When I used Debian Etch, the device /dev/irda0 was automatically created
> and all worked out of the box.
>
> After upgrade to Debian Lenny, the udev-created device changed, due to
> some mysterious reason, to /dev/ttyUSB0 and now the dongle does not work
> out of the box (does not connect to my cellphone using 'ircp -r' unlike
> in the Etch era).
>
> Does anyone know what changed and what&how to change so that it'll work
> again?
>
> Thanks,
> --- Omer
>
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