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From: Panagiotis Astithas <past@netmode.ntua.gr>
To: Dinesh Nair <dinesh@alphaque.com>
Cc: Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com>,
	Richard Johnson <raj@cisco.com>, Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx>,
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Subject: Re: Nokia 8210
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On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 12:20:26AM +0800, Dinesh Nair wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Scott Mitchell wrote:
> 
> > of it -- it looks just like any other serial port device.  Most of these
> > handsets will also talk IrDA.  My Nokia 7110 is an example of such a
> > handset.  Older models, like the 5110, don't have the modem emulation and
> 
> question is, has anyone managed to get freebsd to talk irda thru the ir
> port ? i see my ir port is recognized as sio2 upon bootup, but cant seem
> to speak to anything. 

IrDa is not supported in FreeBSD, but you can use the infrared adapter as a 
serial port to communicate with the phone. Some phones (e.g. Nokia 6110) use
a subset of IrDA (IrCOMM) that makes this possible. You have to use gnokii
though to connect to the phone.

-past

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