HP NC8000 and infrared

Hi, I have been trying to achieve an infrared connection between my laptop and my cell phone. From what I have found on the internet (tuxmobil.org and irda.sourceforge.net), my laptop has an IrDA chip that doesn't play nicely with Linux. As such, it has to be set up with a hack from irda.sourceforge.net. I have tried to get this hack to work, but have not been successful. When I compile the smcinit executable and try to install smsc-ircc2, modprobe tells me that no such device exists. Has anyone been able to get IrDA to work with this laptop? If so, could you send me a step by step description of how you got it to work? Thanks, Jason Mazzotta