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Date:      Wed, 12 Dec 2001 14:48:09 -0700
From:      "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com>
To:        Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU>
Cc:        mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Talking to a Palm over IR?
Message-ID:  <20011212144809.G7869@freeway.dcfinc.com>
In-Reply-To: <3C1670BF.6030203@isi.edu>; from larse@ISI.EDU on Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 12:46:55PM -0800
References:  <3C1670BF.6030203@isi.edu>

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On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 12:46:55PM -0800, Lars Eggert wrote:
> OK, here we go: Has anyone managed to connect to a Palm (m500, but it 
> should not matter) over Infrared? My IR port shows up as sio1, but no luck.
> 
> Or is IRDA support required, even though it looks like a serial port? 
> (Sorry, I'm clueless when it comes to IR.) In that case, I think NetBSD 
> just got some basic support for it.

IIRC, Palm OS 2.x and earlier had a proprietary protocol for the IR
transfers, but that they now use IrDA.

So you might have half a chance...

	-crl
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