If you wave a non-IRDA compliant infra-red device around in front of your empeg, assuming that the empeg can recognise it, then where does the device recognition appear?

What IR device drivers are available in the kernel?

One of the few remaining Mk1 owners... #00015

If you wave a non-IRDA compliant infra-red device around in front of your empeg, assuming that the empeg can recognise it, then where does the device recognition appear?
try :

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/irda/discovery

wave your device, then type

cat /proc/net/irda/discovery

This should show your device in the log lines.
It will probably only work on IRDA-compliant hardware.
here's a list of IR-drivers for the linux-kernel ( from Documentation/Configure.help ) :

IrDA Protocols

CONFIG_IRDA

  Say Y here if you want to build support for the IrDA (TM) protocols.

  The Infrared Data Associations (tm) specifies standards for wireless

  infrared communication and is supported by most laptops and PDA's.



  To use Linux support for the IrDA (tm) protocols, you will also need

  some user-space utilities like the irmanager and probably irattach

  as well. For more information, see the file

  Documentation/networking/irda.txt. You also want to read the

  IR-HOWTO, available from

  ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO.



  This support is also available as a module. If you want to compile

  it as a module, say M here and read Documentation/modules.txt. The

  module will be called



IrDA Cache last LSAP

CONFIG_IRDA_CACHE_LAST_LSAP

  Say Y here if you want IrLMP to cache the last LSAP used. This makes

  sense since most frames will be sent/received on the same

  connection. Enabling this option will save a hash-lookup per frame.



  If unsure, say Y.



IrDA Fast RR's

CONFIG_IRDA_FAST_RR

  Say Y here is you want IrLAP to send fast RR (Receive Ready) frames

  when acting as a primary station. This will make IrLAP send out a RR

  frame immediately when receiving a frame if its own transmit queue

  is currently empty. This will give a lot of speed improvement when

  receiving much data since the secondary station will not have to

  wait the max. turn around time before it is allowed to transmit the

  next time. If the transmit queue of the secondary is also empty the

  primary will back off waiting longer for sending out the RR frame

  until the timeout reaches the normal value. Enabling this option

  will make the IR-diode burn more power and thus reduce your battery

  life.



  If unsure, say N.



IrDA Debug

CONFIG_IRDA_DEBUG

  Say Y here if you want the IrDA subsystem to write debug information

  to your syslog. You can change the debug level in

  /proc/sys/net/irda/debug



  If unsure, say Y (since it makes it easier to find the bugs).



IrLAP Compression support

CONFIG_IRDA_COMPRESSION

  Compression is _not_ part of the IrDA(tm) protocol specification,

  but it's working great! Linux is the first to try out compression

  support at the IrLAP layer. This means that you will only benefit

  from compression if you are running a Linux <-> Linux configuration.



  If you say Y here, you also need to say Y or M to a compression

  protocol below.



IrLAP Deflate Compression Protocol

CONFIG_IRDA_DEFLATE

  Say Y here if you want to build support for the Deflate compression

  protocol. The deflate compression (GZIP) is exactly

  the same as the one used by the PPP protocol.



  If you want to compile this compression support as a module, say M

  here and read Documentation/modules.txt. The module will be called

  irda_deflate.o.



IrLAN Protocol

CONFIG_IRLAN

  Say Y here if you want to build support for the IrLAN protocol. If

  you want to compile it as a module, say M here and read

  Documentation/modules.txt. IrLAN emulates an Ethernet and makes it

  possible to put up a wireless LAN using infrared beams.



  The IrLAN protocol can be used to talk with infrared access points

  like the HP NetbeamIR, or the ESI JetEye NET. You can also connect

  to another Linux machine running the IrLAN protocol for ad-hoc

  networking!



IrCOMM Protocol

CONFIG_IRCOMM

  Say Y here if you want to build support for the IrCOMM protocol. If

  you want to compile it as a module, say M here and read

  Documentation/modules.txt. IrCOMM implements serial port emulation,

  and makes it possible to use all existing applications that

  understands TTY's with an infrared link. Thus you should be able to

  use application like PPP, minicom and others. Enabling this option

  will create two modules called ircomm and ircomm_tty. For more

  information go to http://www.pluto.dti.ne.jp/~thiguchi/irda/



IrLPT Protocol

CONFIG_IRLPT

  Say Y here if you want to build support for the IrLPT protocol. If

  you want to compile it as a module, say M here and read

  Documentation/modules.txt. IrLPT makes it possible to print

  documents to IrDA capable printers.



IrLPT Client Protocol

CONFIG_IRLPT_CLIENT

  Say Y here if you want to build support for the IrLPT client

  protocol. If you want to compile it as a module, say M here and read

  Documentation/modules.txt. The IrLPT client protocol can be used to

  print documents to IrDA compatible printers like the HP-5MP, or

  IrLPT printer adapters like the ACTiSYS IR-100M.



IrLPT Server Protocol

CONFIG_IRLPT_SERVER

  Say Y here if you want to build support for the IrLPT server

  protocol. If you want to compile it as a module, say M here and read

  Documentation/modules.txt. The IrLPT server protocol makes it

  possible to use a Linux machine as an infrared printer server for

  other laptops. So if your Linux machine has a cable connection to a

  printer, then other laptops can use the Linux machine to print out

  documents using infrared communication.



IrTTY IrDA Device Driver

CONFIG_IRTTY_SIR

  Say Y here if you want to build support for the IrTTY line

  discipline. If you want to compile it as a module, say M here and

  read Documentation/modules.txt. IrTTY makes it possible to use

  Linux's own serial driver for all IrDA ports that are 16550

  compatible. Most IrDA chips are 16550 compatible so you should

  probably say Y to this option. Using IrTTY will however limit the

  speed of the connection to 115200 bps (IrDA SIR mode)



  If unsure, say Y.



IrPORT IrDA Device Driver

CONFIG_IRPORT_SIR

  Say Y here if you want to build support for the IrPORT IrDA device

  driver. If you want to compile it as a module, say M here and

  read Documentation/modules.txt. IrPORT can be used instead of

  IrTTY and sometimes this can be better. One example is if your

  IrDA port does not have echo-canceling, which will work OK with

  IrPORT since this driver is working in half-duplex mode only. You

  don't need to use irattach with IrPORT, but you just insert it

  the same way as FIR drivers (insmod irport io=0x3e8 irq=11).

  Notice that IrPORT is a SIR device driver which means that speed

  is limited to 115200 bps.



  If unsure, say Y.

Frank van Gestel