No IrDA Support With CentOS Anymore?

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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@rechner1 ~]# modprobe ircomm modprobe: FATAL: Module ircomm not found in directory
/lib/modules/4.18.0-147.6.el8.x86_64
[root@rechner1 ~]# modprobe ircomm_tty modprobe: FATAL: Module ircomm_tty not found in directory
/lib/modules/4.18.0-147.6.el8.x86_64
[root@destn40768 ~]#

[root@rechner1 ~]# lsusb | grep -i irda Bus 002 Device 011: ID 9710:7780 MosChip Semiconductor MCS7780 4Mbps Fast IrDA Adapter
[root@rechner1 ~]#

Same with CentOS7

How do I get IrDA support?

Mit freundlichen Gr

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  • 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