Make sure your IrDA-Port is enabled in the BIOS and what irq and port it uses, depending on the specification of your machine.
- Make sure you use kernel 2.0.x (at the moment there is no support for 2.1.x). If unsure try uname -r.
- You should have proc file system support in the kernel.
- Also serial support.
- I am not sure wether there has to be parallel port support for using a printer with Linux/IR.
- Networking support for use with Linux/IR ethernet devices.
- Make sure you have module support in your kernel! Test it e.g. with lsmod.
- Matt Francis wrote: "I notice that some of the modules appear to want not only module support (as noted on the webpage), but also misc user device support.".
Make sure you use modutils 2.x.x by insmod --version.
The shared library libc.so.5 and the loader ld-linux.so.1 has to be available.
Most important, you must sync your disks!!! Maybe you have to reboot your machine. Have you read the disclaimer?
Other useful progs: APSFILTER, EZ-Magic, MagicFilter or some like this for the printer configuration.