Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 10:52:00 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: "Richard C." <freebsd@telus.net> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Infrared on Laptop... Message-ID: <XFMail.20010425105200.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <007401c0cd25$2fce30e0$0100a8c0@bsdaemon.org>
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On 25-Apr-2001 Richard C. wrote: > Was just wondering, is there a way to use the infrared in any way? Be it > network peer-peer to another laptop via infrared (as i noticed possible in > windows *shiver*) or maybe use it with some software as a remote control for > my TV, VCR, etc? I've done the later before with my Palm Pilot, was kinda > kewl... There is no IrDA stack for FreeBSD which is what you would need to talk to another laptop or a palm pilot. (Well you could possibly use the raw IR port as a half duplex serial port and run PPP over it). As for remote controls.. They use a fairly different system to IrDA ports so it isn't really feasable. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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