From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 21 03:48:29 2003 Return-Path: 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 C331D37B401 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 03:48:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from birch.ripe.net (birch.ripe.net [193.0.1.96]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4BB343F3F for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 03:48:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marks@ripe.net) Received: from laptop.6bone.nl (cow.ripe.net [193.0.1.239]) by birch.ripe.net (8.12.9/8.11.6) with SMTP id h6LAmRNe010862; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 12:48:27 +0200 Received: (nullmailer pid 2293 invoked by uid 1000); Mon, 21 Jul 2003 10:48:26 -0000 Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 12:48:26 +0200 From: Mark Santcroos To: Torfinn Ingolfsen Message-ID: <20030721104826.GA2242@laptop.6bone.nl> References: <20030707154713.7f19593e.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030707154713.7f19593e.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Handles: MS6-6BONE, MS18417-RIPE cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using IrDA "dongles" with FreeBSD 4-stable? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 10:48:30 -0000 [ 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