From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Jul 22 23:35:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (c421509-a.pinol1.sfba.home.com [24.7.86.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1A5937B449 for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 23:35:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from elischer.org (InterJet.elischer.org [192.168.1.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA17378; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 01:27:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B5BC1EB.36ACF039@elischer.org> Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 23:19:23 -0700 From: Julian Elischer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Somers Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" , Wolfram Schneider , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, Brian Somers , Paul Richards Subject: Re: ppp over infrared device References: <200107230236.f6N2aVg14455@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 > -- +------------------------------------+ ______ _ __ | __--_|\ Julian Elischer | \ U \/ / hard at work in | / \ julian@elischer.org +------>x USA \ a very strange | ( OZ ) \___ ___ | country ! +- X_.---._/ presently in San Francisco \_/ \\ v To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message