From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Jan 29 16:17:32 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09A4E37B406 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 16:17:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from ece.cmu.edu (ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.136.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5514A43E4A for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 16:17:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from allbery@ece.cmu.edu) Received: from [10.9.204.1] (allbery@dhcp-57-204.dsl.telerama.com [205.201.57.204]) (authenticated) by ece.cmu.edu (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id h0U0HMW14058; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 19:17:23 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Help w/ palm pilot infrared hotsync. From: "Brandon S. Allbery " KF8NH To: George Hartzell Cc: FreeBSD-mobile list In-Reply-To: <15928.24323.631420.576233@rosebud.alerce.com> References: <15928.19982.194512.447861@rosebud.alerce.com> <1043878512.20477.18.camel@rushlight.kf8nh.apk.net> <15928.24323.631420.576233@rosebud.alerce.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1043885842.20477.21.camel@rushlight.kf8nh.apk.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.0 Date: 29 Jan 2003 19:17:22 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 18:08, George Hartzell wrote: > The bios setup screen only gives me the option of FIR. A bit of > googling around suggests that the Palm can do FIR. What's the > constraint that causes you to require SIR? FIR doesn't show up as a serial port, and it requires a special driver. No such drivers currently exist for FreeBSD. However, if the Vaio is willing to make it visible as a serial port then presumably it autoswitches between FIR and SIR and will work when used via the serial port interface. -- brandon s allbery [openafs/solaris/japh/freebsd] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [linux/heimdal/too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university [better check the oblivious first -ke6sls] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message