Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 01:11:28 +0100 (CET) From: "Soren S. Jorvang" <soren@t.dk> To: Lourie <louie@sunra.csci.unt.edu> Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Libretto 70CT problems Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.980219091338.664A-100000@gnyf.int.tele.dk>
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[I'm not on freebsd-mobile] Louie wrote: > > 3) What's involved in getting the IrDA port to work? (I haven't > > tried yet.) Does it just look like another serial port or is there > > more to it? I just bought an IBM PC110 and a serial port IrDA transceiver for another system. With the only useful built-in ports being a 2400 bps modem and the IrDA interface, getting it to work for bootstrapping the box seemed like a good idea :-) I left both serial ports at their defaults, "normal serial port mode", ie. not 'IrDA mode'. Serial-over-IrDA is 8N1, with no carrier signal other than the data itself. $ grep softcar /etc/ttys tty01 "/usr/libexec/getty 115200np" vt340 on softcar $ grep 115200np /etc/gettytab 115200np::np:sp#115200: I do intend to run PPP over the link once I get a proper system installed on the portable, to get compression and CRC. The link is very reliable when the transceivers are within range of eachother, but at the edge of the effective range, data gets transformed to complete garbage. Nate wrote: > There's more to it. Apparently it doesn't 'just work', and requires > non-existant patches to have it do anything useful. (At least) if the port is a 115K2bps version, it should be able to look like a 16550 for running serial-over-IrDa. -- Soren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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