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NAME

       irattach - binds the Linux-IrDA stack to a IrDA port

SYNOPSIS

       irattach [ <dev> ] [ -s ] [ -d dongle ] [ -v ] [ -h ]

DESCRIPTION

       irattach  binds the Linux-IrDA stack to an IrDA port. It configures the
       low level of the Linux-IrDA stack in the kernel. This step  is  usually
       necessary  before you (or applications) can use the higher layer of the
       IrDA stack.

       The irattach command  loads  the  necessary  Linux-IrDA  driver,  which
       configures  the IrDA hardware, and configures the IrDA stack to operate
       on the new IrDA port. Multiple IrDA  ports  can  be  activated  through
       multiple irattach commands.

       irattach  by  default uses the irtty driver which connects to the Linux
       TTY subsystem and use the standard Linux serial driver. This works well
       for  most  machines  and  configurations,  but  limits the baud rate to
       115200bps (IrDA SIR mode). The mode of operation will  work  with  most
       FIR  hardware (as found in laptops - they provide serial emulation) and
       most serial dongles (provided the proper  dongle  type  is  specified),
       making  it  a  safe choice. However, USB dongles and a few FIR hardware
       don’t support serial emulation and can’t be used with the irtty driver.

       irattach  can  also  use  one  of  the Linux FIR drivers (including USB
       dongle drivers) instead of the irtty driver. Most FIR  drivers  require
       proper  configuration  of module parameters (this is documented below).
       FIR drivers allow you to use higher baud rates (generally up to 4Mbps).
       In  general, Linux FIR support is not as stable and mature, due to lack
       of time and documentation.

       irattach must be run as root or installed setuid root, as  it  requires
       root  privileges.  If  you  have  compiled  the  IrDA  stack as modules
       (recommended), then you will need to edit the  /etc/modules.conf  file.
       See the Infrared-HOWTO for details.

OPTIONS

       <dev>  :  this  is the name of a TTY, an IrDA interface or IrDA driver.
       irattach decides to use the irtty driver or  one  of  the  FIR  drivers
       based on this argument.

       · TTY  name  : this is the serial port to be configured using the irtty
         driver, such as /dev/ttyS0. irattach will use the  irtty  driver,  so
         only   SIR   will  be  available.  You  need  to  check  your  serial
         configuration or BIOS to know which serial port is the IrDA port that
         need to be passed to irattach.

       · interface  name  : this is the device name of an IrDA interface, such
         as irda0. irattach will use one of the  FIR  drivers  (including  USB
         dongle  drivers). The selected FIR driver must be loaded prior to the
         call to irattach, or the proper alias for the device name must be set
         in /etc/modules.conf.

       · module  name : this is the name of an FIR driver module, such as nsc-
         ircc (see list below). All new IrDA interfaces created after  loading
         the  module  will  be configured, so this won’t work if the module is
         already loaded. This feature is still experimental.

       -s : starts discovery of remote IrDA devices (note that the form "-s 1"
       is no longer supported)

       -v  : shows version information (this happens, when no option is given,
       too)

       -h : shows help information.

       -d dongle : attaches an additional dongle driver to the IrDA port.

       You need a dongle driver if you have an infrared device  that  connects
       to  your  computer’s  serial port (normal 9-pin serial port connector).
       These devices are called dongles, and can currently be used by any  SIR
       driver  (IrTTY  or  irport).   This  option  is not compatible with FIR
       drivers, and only works with the irtty and irport drivers.

       The currently known (serial) dongles are:

       · esi        Extended Systems JetEye PC ESI-9680

       · tekram     Tekram IrMate IR-210B dongle

       · actisys    ACTiSYS IR-220L dongle

       · actisys+   ACTiSYS IR-220L+ dongle

       · girbil     Greenwich GIrBIL dongle

       · litelink   Parallax LiteLink dongle  &  Extended  Systems  JetEye  PC
         ESI-9680B

       · airport    N.N.

       · old_belkin  Belkin  (old) SmartBeam dongle or any dongle only capable
         of 9600 bauds

       · ep7211     IR port driver for the Cirrus Logic EP7211 processor  (ARM
         based)

       · mcp2120    Dongles based on the MCP2120 (Microchip)

       · act200l    ACTiSYS Ir-200L dongles

       · ma600      Mobile Action ma600 dongles

       · toim3232   Vishay/Temic TOIM3232 and TOIM4232 based dongles

FIR DRIVER MODULES

       If  you  are  one  of  the lucky people which have a FIR chipset or USB
       dongle that is supported by one of the Linux-IrDA drivers, you can  use
       irattach  with  the  interface  name of the IrDA port to configure. You
       will need to configure /etc/conf.modules appropriately, with  at  least
       an  alias  of  irda0  to  the  driver name, or load the driver manually
       beforehand.

       You don’t strictly need to use irattach with FIR drivers, you  can  use
       modprobe to load the driver, ifconfig to bring up the interface and set
       the various sysctl by hand, but irattach offer a convenient way  to  do
       it.

       Of  course, you need to know which FIR driver applies to your hardware.
       You may use findchip to get information about the  FIR  chip.  If  this
       doesn’t  help,  the  Infrared-HOWTO shows other means to retrieve these
       data.

       Also, you often need to configure the Linux-serial driver to ignore the
       IrDA  port,  otherwise  both drivers will conflict. This can usually be
       done with setserial /dev/ttySx uart none.

       The currently known FIR drivers are:

       · ali-ircc ALi FIR Controller Driver for ALi M5123 (options:  io,  irq,
         dma).   This  driver  supports SIR, MIR and FIR (4Mbps) speeds.  This
         chipset is used by e.g.:

         The ALi M5123 FIR  Controller  is  embedded  in  ALi  M1543C,  M1535,
         M1535D, M1535+, M1535D South Bridge.

       · irda-usb  IrDA-USB device driver, for USB devices/dongles that comply
         with the official IrDA-USB class specification. Note: USB 2.0 is  not
         yet  tested.   (options:  qos_mtt_bits int, description "Minimum Turn
         Time").  This is used, for e.g.:

         ACTiSYS ACT-IR2000U

         KC Technology KC-180

         Extended Systems XTNDAccess ESI-9685

         Note that there is another USB driver for those devices called ir-usb
         which  is  NOT compatible with the IrDA stack and conflict with irda-
         usb. Because it  always  loads  first,  you  have  to  remove  ir-usb
         completely.

         Devices  based  on  the  SigmaTel chip are not not compliant with the
         IrDA-USB class specification  and  therfore  not  supported  by  this
         driver.

       · nsc-ircc  NSC  IrDA  device driver (options: io, irq, dma, dongle_id,
         qos_mtt_bits).  This chipset is used by e.g.:

         IBM ThinkPad  dongle_id=0x09

         HP OmniBook 6000 dongle_id=0x08

       · sa1100_ir Infrared driver for devices based on the  StrongARM  SA1100
         embedded  microprocessor (options: power_level, tx_lpm).  This driver
         may support FIR on devices that can do it.  This chipset is  used  by
         e.g.:

         Samsung YOPY, COMPAQ iPAQ, SHARP Zaurus SL5000/5500

       · smc-ircc  SMC  IrCC  controller driver (options: ircc_dma, ircc_irq).
         This chipset is used by e.g.:

         Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook 635t Sony PCG-505TX

       · w83977af_ir Winbond W83977AF IrDA device driver  (options:  io,  irq,
         qos_mtt_bits).  This chipset is used by e.g.:

         Corel NetWinder

       · toshoboe  Toshiba OBOE IrDA device driver, supports Toshiba Type-O IR
         chipset.  (options: max_baud).  This chipset is used by e.g.:

         Toshiba Libretto 100CT., and many more old Toshiba laptops.

       · donauboe is a new version of toshoboe and has better FIR support  and
         compability   with   the   Donauoboe  chip  http://libxg.free.fr/lib-
         irda.html (options: ..).  This chipset is used by e.g.:

         Toshiba Libretto 100CT., Tecra  8100,  Portege  7020  and  many  more
         Toshiba laptops.

       · vlsi_ir VLSI 82C147 SIR/MIR/FIR device driver This chipset is used by
         e.g.:

         HP Omnibook 800

         (options: ..).

         · clksrc int, description "clock input source selection"

         · ringsize int array (min = 1, max = 2),  description  "tx,  rx  ring
           descriptor size"

         · sirpulse int, description "sir pulse width tuning"

         · mtt_bits  int,  description  "IrLAP bitfield representing min-turn-
           time"

EXAMPLES

       Attach the IrDA stack to the second serial port (integrated  IrDA  port
       using serial emulation) and start discovery:

       · irattach /dev/ttyS1 -s

       Attach  the  IrDA  stack  to  the  first  serial port where you have an
       external ACTiSYS serial dongle and start discovery:

       · irattach /dev/ttyS0 -d actisys+ -s

       Attach the IrDA stack to the first IrDA-USB dongle and start discovery:

       · modprobe irda-usb ; irattach irda0 -s

       Attach  the  IrDA  stack  to  the  NSC  FIR  (4Mbps) device driver on a
       Thinkpad laptop:

       · modprobe nsc-ircc dongle_id=0x9 ; irattach irda0 -s.

       Attach the IrDA stack to  the  NSC  FIR  (4Mbps)  device  driver  on  a
       Thinkpad laptop:

       · irattach irda0 -s.

         This   assume   that   you   have  added  the  following  entries  to
         /etc/conf.modules:

         options nsc-ircc dongle_id=0x09

         alias irda0 nsc-ircc

CAVEATS

       The  following  hints  are  a  very   short   introduction   into   the
       configuration  of Linux/IrDA. If this doesn’t help read the Linux/IrDA-
       Tutorial and/or the Infrared-HOWTO  .   Before  configuring  Linux/IrDA
       make sure whether you want to configure SIR or FIR. It’s recommended to
       try SIR first, unless your device  is  not  compatible  with  SIR  (for
       example USB dongles).

       To  get  the  SIR  "serial"  device have a look into the BIOS. Then run
       dmesg | grep tty to get a survey  of  tty  devices  supported  by  your
       machine.  Now  try to choose the one, which is probably the IrDA device
       and use irattach /dev/ttySx -s.

       If you don’t succeed with SIR (which seems a rare  case)  you  may  try
       FIR. First look up the BIOS. Then run findchip to get information about
       the IrDA controller chip. Use setserial /dev/ttySx uart none  to  avoid
       conflicts  with  the  serial  driver.  Note: don’t use setserial if you
       configure SIR.  Now you may use irattach.

       Finally irdadump should show at  least  your  computer  itself.  If  it
       doesn’t start at the beginning.

       This  man  page  deal  only  with the low level of the IrDA stack (IrDA
       ports and IrDA drivers). After this step is done, you usually  need  to
       setup  your  favorite  application  to access the high level IrDA stack
       (via IrCOMM, IrLPT,  IrNET,  IrLAN  or  IrSOCK),  which  is  documented
       elsewhere.

       This  man  page  doesn’t  document  the usage of the irport driver. The
       irport driver support the same hardware as the  irtty  driver,  but  is
       configured like a FIR driver.

DIAGNOSTICS

       This section currently contains the raw error messages from source code
       only.

       "ioctl(TIOCGETD): %m"

       "irattach: tty: set_disc(%d): %s"

       "tcsetattr: %m"

       "Failed to open %s: %m"

       "Couldn’t get device fd flags: %m"

       "Couldn’t set device to non-blocking mode: %m"

BUGS

       N.N.

SEE ALSO

       irattach(8),  irdaping(8),   irdadump(8),   findchip(8),   irpsion5(8),
       modprobe(8)

       Linux/IrDA  Project http://irda.sourceforge.net -*- Linux/IrDA-Tutorial
       http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/IrDA/index.html      -*-
       Infrared-HOWTO  http://tuxmobil.org/howtos.html  -*- Infrared-Hardware-
       Survey http://tuxmobil.org/ir_misc.html

AUTHOR

       This manual page is written by Werner Heuser <wehe@tuxmobil.org>. It is
       based  on the READMEs from irda-utils by the Linux/IrDA Project and the
       Linux/IrDA-Tutorial.  It was subsequently updated and modified by  Jean
       Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2001 Werner Heuser Copyright (c) 2002 Jean Tourrilhes

       Permission  is  granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
       under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License  (GFDL),  Version
       1.1  or  any  later  version published by the Free Software Foundation;
       with no Invariant Sections, no  Front-Cover  Texts  and  no  Back-Cover
       Texts.

                                 03 July 2006