Yes, it appears this way.  However, since it has IR, I thought it was even 
simpler to just appear as a /dev/ircomm0 or something.  I mean isn't IrDA 
more complex than ircomm?  I just want to control stuff w/o the networking 
overhead.
/mario
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 15:55, Steven Buehler wrote:
> Looks like it's trying to set it up as a network device rather than a
> serial device.
>
> SWB
>
> On Mar 9, 2005, at 3:22 PM, Mario Lombardo wrote:
> > "ifconfig irda0" says this:
> >
> > irda0     Link encap:IrLAP  HWaddr 00:00:00:00
> >           NOARP  MTU:2048  Metric:1
> >           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >           collisions:0 txqueuelen:8
> >           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> >
> > I hope I can still use this thing as a remote control device.  That's
> > why I
> > bought it.
> >
> > /mario
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