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This package is good for you if you own a Linux machine that have SMC-IRCC based
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IrDA subsystem and the BIOS doesn't initialize it. Otherwise you don't
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If you reading here, then you may be the unhappy owner of Toshiba Satellite
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1800, Toshiba Satellite 5100 or Toshiba Tecra 9100 laptop. Well, there's
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a chance that a bunch of other Toshiba laptops may share the same buggy BIOS
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Daniele Peri, Rob Miller and Paul Hampson mananged to build little utilities
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that initialize the LPC47N227 SuperIO allowing smc-ircc IrDA kernel driver
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to detect and use the SMSC chip.
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Note that for starting with Linux kernels from 2.6.x series this initializing
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will be integrated to the new smc-ircc kernel driver.
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man smcminit (intro to smcinit utilities)
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man tosh1800-smcinit (built from Daniele Peri documentation and with my own additions)
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Read the very good documetation made by utilities authors. Note that man pages have
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been built from these docs.
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README.Tom - Thomas Pinz documentation on improvements made over 0.3-1 version
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README.Peri - Peri's README file
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README.Rob - Rob Miller irda.html page rendered as text file
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RobMiller-irda.html - The original Rob's irda.html page, renamed for posible name clashing reason
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CHANGELOG.Peri - Daniele Peri own changelog file
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ChangeLog - This package changelog
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INSTALL - Installation instruction for this package
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The SMCINIT package home page is:
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http://irda.sourceforge.net/smcinit/
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Please send the bugs and your wishes to the authors.
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The nice and important thing you can do is to send me (Claudiu Costin)
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your success story for a laptop or computer which is not listed here.
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Claudiu Costin <claudiuc@kde.org>