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From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>,
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Subject: Re: ppp over infrared device
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yes we know that linux supports irda but we are taking a slightly
different path. We can use their code for reference but we are not using
it directly.


On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Wolfram Schneider wrote:

> On 2001-07-22 23:19:23 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > > I believe there's a working stack somewhere at the moment - a guy at
> > > Usenix mentioned it...  Julian/Paul (both cc'd) can you guys remember
> > > his name ?
> > 
> > don't understimate the horribleness of the one irda specs.
> > he guy is on holiday for a few weeks
> > 
> > we are using netgraph to connect to irda devices.
> > 3 bottoms... SMC, Toshiba and async com-port.
> > 
> > it depends what layer the phone uses
> 
> It looks like Linux support IrDa: http://security.nta.no/vaio_ir.html
> 
> How hard would it be to port it to FreeBSD? If I have the choice
> between MS Windows and GPL software, I prefer GPL.
> 
> -Wolfram
> 
> -- 
> Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org> http://wolfram.schneider.org
> 


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