Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 03:36:30 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, Brian Somers <brian@freebsd-services.com>, Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Subject: Re: ppp over infrared device Message-ID: <200107230236.f6N2aVg14455@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> of "Sun, 22 Jul 2001 22:39:27 %2B0930." <XFMail.20010722223927.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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> On 22-Jul-2001 Wolfram Schneider wrote: > > I have a Sony Vaio PCG 745 with a infrared device. > > I want use the infrared device to communicate with a cell > > phone and running ppp. > > > > I configured the infrared device to use the irq 3 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff. > > > > This works fine on Windows98. I want do the same on FreeBSD ;-) > > You need to write an IRDA stack. > > Shouldn't take more than a few months.. > > Someone did start writing one but I think the project was dropped. The source > code is still available though. 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 ? > --- > Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer > for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au > "The nice thing about standards is that there > are so many of them to choose from." > -- Andrew Tanenbaum -- Brian <brian@freebsd-services.com> <brian@Awfulhak.org> http://www.freebsd-services.com/ <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! <brian@[uk.]OpenBSD.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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