From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Apr 24 18:22:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D157237B42C for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 18:22:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from darius@chowder.gsoft.com.au) Received: from chowder.gsoft.com.au (chowder.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.100]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA10257; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 10:52:02 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from darius@chowder.gsoft.com.au) Received: (from darius@localhost) by chowder.gsoft.com.au (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f3P1M1k00972; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 10:52:01 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from darius) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.7 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <007401c0cd25$2fce30e0$0100a8c0@bsdaemon.org> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 10:52:00 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: "Richard C." Subject: RE: Infrared on Laptop... Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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