The Debian way is quite simple! Just do
apt-get install irda-utils
And then choose to use to activate Infra-red at boot-time, with discover, and choose the serial driver. It starts a daemon and everything works!

Enabling infrared

Load the irda and irtty_sir modules:
$ sudo modprobe irda
$ sudo modprobe irtty_sir

Install the irda-utils package:
$ sudo apt-get install irda-utils

Run irattach:
$ sudo irattach /dev/ttyS0

After a reboot an infrared phone (for example) should now show up in /proc/net/irda/discovery:
$ cat /proc/net/irda/discovery
IrLMP: Discovery log:

nickname: SIEMENS S55, hint: 0xb124, saddr: 0x7ca35c24, daddr: 0x0000001d

Ava oma pakihaldur ja otsi märksõnu obex ja gsm ja mobile.
Ja siis on veel gMobileMedia ja Gammu ja XGnokii. Kõik oleneb, mida soov ette võtta on.

!!! Since Gutsy USB handling has changed !!!
So absolutely make sure to re enable /proc/bus/usb/devices by executing following :

1.
Code:
sudo gedit /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh
2.
Now remove " # " symbols from the front of following lines of code :
Code:
#mkdir -p /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs
#domount usbfs "" /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs -obusmode=0700,devmode=0600,listmode=0644
#ln -s .usbfs/devices /dev/bus/usb/devices
#mount --rbind /dev/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb

Ma saan nagu aru, et on ubuntu 8.10 (intrepid) Mul eesti keelne. Ei oska nagu otsida sellist System/About ubuntu