Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 23:19:23 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, Brian Somers <brian@freebsd-services.com>, Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com> Subject: Re: ppp over infrared device Message-ID: <3B5BC1EB.36ACF039@elischer.org> References: <200107230236.f6N2aVg14455@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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Brian Somers wrote:
>
> > 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 ?
don't understimate the horribleness of the one irda specs.
he guy is on holiday for a few weeks
we are using netgraph to connect to irda devices.
3 bottoms... SMC, Toshiba and async com-port.
it depends what layer the phone uses
>
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