On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 4:09 AM <andreas.reschke at mahle.com> wrote: > > Hi there, > I've a laptop with CentOS 8 and a PC with CentOS 7. After 3 years of break > I was Scuba Diving last 3 weeks. Back at home I wish to download all dive > logs from my divecomputer connext via IrDA to my PC. > > But no kernel modul for IrDA was found. > > [root at rechner1 ~]# modprobe ircomm > modprobe: FATAL: Module ircomm not found in directory > /lib/modules/4.18.0-147.6.el8.x86_64 > [root at rechner1 ~]# modprobe ircomm_tty > modprobe: FATAL: Module ircomm_tty not found in directory > /lib/modules/4.18.0-147.6.el8.x86_64 > [root at destn40768 ~]# > > > [root at rechner1 ~]# lsusb | grep -i irda > Bus 002 Device 011: ID 9710:7780 MosChip Semiconductor MCS7780 4Mbps Fast > IrDA Adapter > [root at rechner1 ~]# > > Same with CentOS7 > > How do I get IrDA support? > > Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards > > Andreas Reschke As you found out, there is no support for IrDA in CentOS-7 or -8. The only CentOS kernel I see with the support for device [9710:7780] is the centosplus kernel for CentOS-6. This means that you'd need to install CentOS-6 and then update it with the kernel in the centosplus repository. Akemi