From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 28 1:37:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92C5B37B8EB for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 01:37:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id MAA01444; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 12:40:04 +0200 Message-ID: <3959B959.8CA6394D@i-clue.de> Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 10:37:45 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Organization: i-clue interactive GmbH X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Leif Neland Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IrDA InfraRed Drivers. Would anyone use them? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Leif Neland wrote: > > Talking about IrDA, how much hardware is needed on a Asus P2B ? > Is it something which can be build from parts from the local electronics > dealer? Yes. Well, local... plan to do some shopping around. > Is a schematic available? c't (German computer bi-weekly) had one a few months ago [http://www.heise.de/ct/ -- beware: no english version available]. Let's see if I can dig it up... c't 25/99, p. 118. Here's a poor man's ascii rendering of the schematic: mainboard | IR-Receiver | Vcc +---------+ Vcc (+5V) -O----------O | | | | | Vo (out)| | IR in (IR Rx)-O----------O | | | | | GND | | -O---o------O | | | +---------+ | Y IR LED | | | Y low-current LED | | -O---+ | IR Receiver: Honeywell Optoelectronics SDP 8600 IR Transceiver: LD 274 (bad fit, limits sending range to ~30cm) LED: TLLR 4400 More explanations at http://home.t-online.de/home/Rainer.Brang/infrarot.html [in German]. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message