From owner-freebsd-current Sat May 2 08:19:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA05926 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 2 May 1998 08:19:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA05914 for ; Sat, 2 May 1998 08:19:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id PAA03038 for current@freebsd.org; Sat, 2 May 1998 15:44:50 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199805021344.PAA03038@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Infrared ? (a simple experiment for laptop owners...) To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 15:44:50 +0200 (MET DST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was wondering if there is anyone working/playing with infrared on FreeBSD. I know that implementing IrDA is lot of work, and probably not very useful. But maybe we can implement something more primitive (say, in ppp) to allow the use of the IR port that is available on most portables nowadays ? I have just verified on the libretto that if i do hd -v /dev/ttyd1 (after setting clocal and some speed in the range 1200..115200) it is receiving infrared signals from the TV/stereo remotes. using ppp on /dev/cuaa1 also returns the garbage generated by the remotes, whereas it does not seem to receive its own data (maybe receive is disabled while transmitting). Perhaps some laptop owners can put their machines back to back, run ppp at the same speed and see if, going in "term" mode, they can talk to each other ? luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message