HOWTO Get SMC FastIR IRDA to work under linux

Requirements:

• Knowledge how to modify module set of kernel or roll your own
• linux 2.6.x
• Laptop with SMC IrDA chip

Many laptops nowadays come with IrDA served through an SMC IrCC SIR/FIR controller. Unfortunately, it’s setup is not done “by default”, leading people to think that IrDA simply doesn’t works. This is not true. Here’s a howto (not full, you have to read your distro’s manuals about how to adapt it to your system. Console commands however are universal on 99% percent of distros)

Weird Spam

I found one interesting thing about the spam blocked from my blog.

It looks like ‘unya’ gets spanish-or-portugese spam to my blog….

At least Akismet works good :-)

Coffee & Lemon

As the title says. And it’s one hell of a good thing for headaches, not only as a booster :-)

I strongly recommend it, alongside my other picks: Good Tea and Cocoa :-)