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Title: How To Send A File Over Infrared?
Post by: systemparadox on February 26, 2005, 08:21:43 am

I can receive files fine, but I can't work out how to send them.
Hold on file, beam, "Sending file: blah-de-blah-de-blah" dialog comes up, fine.

Little red cross icon: bluetooth is not available (i don't have bluetooth so that's fine)(underlined blue text- looks like a hyperlink).

Infrared icon: TPT20 Try 1 (TPT20 being the name of the other device)(again, looks like a hyperlink)

There is very little activity over the irda link, and even after 15 minutes nothing has changed on  either computer. I have tried tapping on everything in the window with no effect whatsoever. Tapping the close button closes it without sending the file (fair enough).

I'm sure it's very simple, but what am I missing?

Just to make sure: has anybody been able to beam a file using OZ 3.5.2 Opie?

Thanks
Simon

Title: How To Send A File Over Infrared?
Post by: hQuin on February 28, 2005, 06:03:59 am

I'm experiencing this too, now that you mention it.  I hadn't tried transfering a file off the zaurus via infra red since before the oe builds.  It did work back-in-the-day, and it was that simple.

Transfering to the zaurus works fine, though.

Using hentges install of 3.5.2 on 5500.

Harry.

Title: How To Send A File Over Infrared?
Post by: systemparadox on February 28, 2005, 12:03:37 pm

Yeah I can receive fine, and I'm sure it can send fine, but it seems to be telling to send that's the problem.

Title: How To Send A File Over Infrared?
Post by: pungipungi on March 11, 2005, 09:23:23 am

I can beam from the zaurus (3.5.2) to Windows XP and my Siemens S55.

I've used irdadump to find out where it stops for Windows XP.

There the problem was a wrong irda setting to 4MBit/s and that the zaurus send it's file with full path names which causes XP to fail for a nonexisting path.

Andreas

Title: How To Send A File Over Infrared?
Post by: systemparadox on March 12, 2005, 07:44:00 am

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I can beam from the zaurus (3.5.2) to Windows XP and my Siemens S55.

I've used irdadump to find out where it stops for Windows XP.

There the problem was a wrong irda setting to 4MBit/s and that the zaurus send it's file with full path names which causes XP to fail for a nonexisting path.

Andreas
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Andreas,
Could you give me some more info on this please? How did you tell the Z to actually send the file? How did you fix the WinXP problem?
Thanks
Simon

Title: How To Send A File Over Infrared?
Post by: pframpton on March 15, 2005, 06:29:59 am

In some cases irobex_palm3 can send the file to a remote device but libopieobex can't. It might help in fixing libopieobex if people who can't beam from Opie check whether they can beam from the command line using:

irobex_palm3 test.vcf

Where test.vcf is a simple vcard. If this fails, check if the device (phone / laptop) can recieve IR from another device.

Title: How To Send A File Over Infrared?
Post by: pungipungi on March 16, 2005, 03:01:43 pm

For sending I used the beam entry in the Zaurus file manager. Also doing it via document tab works for me.
As I've seen with irdadump my Z and Windows XP negiotate to beam with 4Mbit/s. I've set the maximal speed in windows xp to 115kbits/s. afterwards beaming xp to zaurus worked.
from zaurus to XP there's the problem that Z sends the whole pathname. so sending a file from root succeeds. in all other attempts XP complains with a path problem. as hack i created the path on the irda transfer directory for example
<windows xp transfer dir>/home/root/
after having created this file also the beam from Z to XP worked on my device.

andreas