gnokii Nokia 7210 and irda

[getting_out]

Hello people.
I'm trying to connect a nokia 7210 via irda and gnokii on a debian 
stable 3.0 (aka woody).
When I start xgnokii, it remain in connection mode even if I put the 
phone infront of the irda or not.

This are some config:

$ cat /etc/irda.conf
#irda.conf Version: 1.0
IRDADEV=/dev/ttyS1
#DONGLE= # specify dongle type
DISCOVERY=-s
ENABLE=yes # if you do not need to start irattach, set "no"

$ uname -a
Linux rippingland.bagginslab.it 2.4.23.20031221 #1 Sun Dec 21 14:46:28 
CET 2003 i686 unknown

$ dpkg -l | grep -i irda
ii  irda-common    0.9.14-17      IrDA management utilities
ii  irda-tools     0.9.14-17      IrDA handling tools

$ cat .gnokiirc
[global]
port = /dev/ttyS1
model = 6610
initlength = default
connection = infrared
bindir = /usr/local/sbin/

also tried the connection = irda

I've put the 6610 model 'cause of reading the archive I saw that it's 
almost the same of 7210.
If I put the AT model, when I use xgnokii

$ sudo xgnokii
GSM/FBUS init failed!

$ gnokii --version
GNOKII Version 0.5.7
Copyright (C) Hugh Blemings <address@hidden>, 1999, 2000
Copyright (C) Pavel Janik ml. <address@hidden>, 1999, 2000
Copyright (C) Pavel Machek <address@hidden>, 2001
Copyright (C) Pawel Kot <address@hidden>, 2001-2003
Copyright (C) BORBELY Zoltan <address@hidden>, 2002
gnokii is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and 
you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain 
conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for gnokii.  See GPL for details.
Built 20:23:48 Dec 25 2003

$ ll /usr/local/sbin/mgnokiidev /usr/local/sbin/gnokiid 
/usr/local/bin/gnokii /usr/local/bin/xgnokii
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 212k Dec 25 20:24 /usr/local/bin/gnokii
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.1M Dec 25 20:24 /usr/local/bin/xgnokii
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 192k Dec 25 20:24 /usr/local/sbin/gnokiid
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 32k Dec 25 20:24 /usr/local/sbin/mgnokiidev

*#0000#
V 3.09
02-10-02
NHL-4
(c) NMP

I've read that Linux-IRDA should be turned off in order to use gnokii 
and so I've turned it off.

Some advice?

Thanks a lot,
best regards
D.