I seem to be able to get my irDA basically going with the hijack v200 kernel I have compiled with the time alignment. I did need to get irda-utils package and compile irattach as in this thread

http://empeg.comms.net/php/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=hackers_prog&Number=4299&page=&view=&sb=&o=&vc=1

My Nokia 8210 phone shows up in the discovery log and that's as far as I got - same as Hugo.