From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 8 11:36:19 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6533316A4CE for ; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 11:36:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 096C143D1F for ; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 11:36:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kulminaator@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 58so1046019wri for ; Fri, 08 Apr 2005 04:36:18 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=GnW7lkwL4oLmW8iv49svnKnxgIpadu8e5b+vfKtXNHFEXljddVAjnIbdo2DIUb0yrWaKF5OEUzxeaK/no6czoY4aciw2pfQrziBIgRLCB9QDdGd0SovHvT0K++ZecAUh+IQijjmBhmwAXo2qE/kiUJ8xDAcSgiJ7HqdrTnNM84s= Received: by 10.54.29.68 with SMTP id c68mr803109wrc; Fri, 08 Apr 2005 04:36:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.56.39 with HTTP; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 04:36:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 14:36:13 +0300 From: Martin Roos To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: kulminaator@gmail.com Subject: irda devices support X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Martin Roos List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 11:36:19 -0000 hi, i just recently purchased an irda dongle to use with my cellphone, but unhappily just after the purchase i found myself in the situation where my last choice of software, freebsd, does not support it. it's not only the 'item' itself, the whole irda support seems to be missing :S is anyone working on porting irda devices into freebsd ? netbsd seems to have an implementation which could be perhaps used as a reference to implement them. i've not yet worked myself through all the documentation that is related to irda communication, (there are zillion obfuscated pdf files moving around, takes a while), but it shouldn't be impossible to bring irda support into freebsd. i agree that most of freebsd users probably don't give a damn about irda support, but still it's kind of wierd that such a popular OS has no support for irda in it's kernel by 2005. i'm sure none would mind to control their pc-s with a remote or interact with other computer related devices (everything from laptops down to mobiles and palms) over irda. -- ########## Martin Roos