Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 12:48:26 +0200 From: Mark Santcroos <marks@ripe.net> To: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using IrDA "dongles" with FreeBSD 4-stable? Message-ID: <20030721104826.GA2242@laptop.6bone.nl> In-Reply-To: <20030707154713.7f19593e.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> References: <20030707154713.7f19593e.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
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[ Sorry for the late reply ] On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 03:47:13PM +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > If I want birda to talk to it, doesn't it have to act as a serial port? > Or am I mistaken? I think it should at this moment/in this situation. > After some searching, I'm left with some questions; > - do we have support for IrDA dongles (which connects through usb) in > FreeBSD at all? By means of birda, only serial dongles. > - will birda talk to this dongle even if FreeBSD doesn't see it as a > serial port? Nope. > - does anybody have more information that might help me to get this > working? I have searched bot the net and Google groups, but haven't > found any useful information yet. Well, not much at this time. I have a serial and a usb dongle from a manufacturer for development. While the serial "just" works, I haven't looked at the USB dongle yet. How hard it will be to support it depends mostly on how the device works. If it presents itself as a serial usb device, then it should be easier. If it is just a "normal" usb device, then support needs to be written for that. I don't know of anyone currently looking into this. I will myself at some point, but really can't give you any timeframe on that. Hope this helps. Mark -- Mark Santcroos RIPE Network Coordination Centre http://www.ripe.net/home/mark/ New Projects Group/TTM
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