irda port..

I have a laptop with suse 8.1 pro.. It set up irda automagically so that /etc/sysconfig/irda points to /dev/ttyS1 and with irdadump I can see that it really send's and receives something. I have been then trying to use gnokii to connect to my mobile phone, but can't manage to have it right. Gnokii docs claim that port should be /dev/ircomm0 But if I set it to be like that, it won't work. (irdadump returns empty...) Any ideas, clues ? TIA, P_s