Re: Driver for USB IrDA dongle Kingsun KS-959?

[Alex Villací­s Lasso <avillaci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthias Berndt escribió:> Hello Alex,>>   >> You might be interested to know that Domen Puncer helped me crack the>> USB protocol used by the KS-959 dongle, so that I could write a driver>> for it. Have you tried testing it? >>     > I have done so immediately. Unfortunately, i couldn't get it to work with > my kernel (2.6.21.3-slh-smp-4 from debian unstable).> insmod: error inserting '/tmp/ks-959/ks959-sir.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in > module> Since you wrote it for 2.6.22, I guess my kernel is too old. I'll try > again as soon as the debian guys release a new kernel in sid (which I > guess won't take too long). Nevertheless thank you for writing the driver > and for telling me. I'm sure it'll work :)>> Matthias Berndt>>   Try copying the file ks959-sir.ko into the directory :
/lib/modules/<your kernel version>/kernel/drivers/net/irda
then running /sbin/depmod -a, then plugging in your dongle.
I get the same error when I compile for a particular kernel version for the very first time, and forget to run depmod -a to update kernel dependencies.
-- perl -e '$x=2.4;print sprintf("%.0f + %.0f = %.0f\n",$x,$x,$x+$x);'

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