Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 14:48:09 -0700 From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> To: Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Talking to a Palm over IR? Message-ID: <20011212144809.G7869@freeway.dcfinc.com> In-Reply-To: <3C1670BF.6030203@isi.edu>; from larse@ISI.EDU on Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 12:46:55PM -0800 References: <3C1670BF.6030203@isi.edu>
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On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 12:46:55PM -0800, Lars Eggert wrote: > OK, here we go: Has anyone managed to connect to a Palm (m500, but it > should not matter) over Infrared? My IR port shows up as sio1, but no luck. > > Or is IRDA support required, even though it looks like a serial port? > (Sorry, I'm clueless when it comes to IR.) In that case, I think NetBSD > just got some basic support for it. IIRC, Palm OS 2.x and earlier had a proprietary protocol for the IR transfers, but that they now use IrDA. So you might have half a chance... -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.com DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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