<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/11/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Lynch</b> <<a href="mailto:lynchmv@gmail.com">lynchmv@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
><br>> Even for capturing an IrDA port is unlikely to be able to properly receive<br>> CIR (consumer IR) signals reliably. Even if you could get it to work, it<br>> would likely only operate at very specific distances, with rather limited
<br>> range (see the aforementioned page for details).<br>><br>> Brett.<br>><br><br>With that being said, I have used irrecord with the irda port on my<br>T43 in the aforementioned setup to capture 4 different remotes in my
<br>house. Comparing the captured files to the ones available via the web<br>it is properly capturing the signals. The remotes I'm capturing are<br>various ones that have come with my devices over the years and also my<br>
grey hauppauge remote that came with the pvr-350.<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br></blockquote></div><br>I've gotton lirc to work on a Dell latitude d600. just set the irda / com port in the bios, and compile the lirc_module for serial ports (lirc_sir), and point it to the com port.
<br><br>I needed to run setserial dev/ttyS1 uart none (i'm using com2, com1 is ttyS0). works fine with a Sky remote control (i'm in the UK), but the receiver is in such a poor position on the laptop that it's only useful for curiosity value.
<br><br><br>hop this helps.<br><br>gary<br>