From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 14 8:39:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ntua.gr (achilles.noc.ntua.gr [147.102.222.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E87AC37B503 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 08:39:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from netmode.ntua.gr (dolly.netmode.ece.ntua.gr [147.102.13.10]) by ntua.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA20251 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 18:39:38 +0200 (EET) Received: from edgar.ebs.gr (dialup.netmode.ece.ntua.gr [147.102.13.130]) by netmode.ntua.gr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1EGlBC88906 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 18:47:12 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from past@edgar.ebs.gr) Received: (from past@localhost) by edgar.ebs.gr (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f1EGe0g02209 for hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 18:40:01 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from past) Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 18:39:59 +0200 From: Panagiotis Astithas To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: IrDA and FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010214183957.A2195@netmode.ece.ntua.gr> Reply-To: past@netmode.ntua.gr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-Organizational-Unit: Network Management and Optimal Design Laboratory X-Organization: National Technical University of Athens, GREECE X-Work-Phone: +30-1-772-1-450 X-Work-FAX: +30-1-772-1-452 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi folks, I am one of those who would like to see IrDA support in FreeBSD, and for that matter I am prepared to offer some work. I have downloaded the relative specifications and I have been looking at the Linux-IrDA stuff. I am about to embark on an effort to port the irda-utils-0.9.13 from linux, particularly the findchip thing (I have to know what adapter my laptop has :-)). Therefore I would like to ask if anybody has already done the job, and perhaps there was some other area I could contribute. I have read in the archives the discussion of about a month ago, that involved the netgraph approach. While I think it's a great idea, I would like to ask a perhaps naive question: can't we implement the lower protocol layer on top of ng_tty, essentially doing something like IrDA-over-serial? If that was possible I guess we don't have to implement any drivers at all, and we could concentrate on the higher layers of the IrDA protocol, essentially supporting every infrared dongle out there. Cheers, -past To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message