Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 10:38:24 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Infrared ? (a simple experiment for laptop owners...) Message-ID: <199805040108.KAA24298@cain.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 02 May 1998 15:44:50 %2B0200." <199805021344.PAA03038@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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> to allow the use of the IR port that is available on most portables > nowadays ? Yeah, it would be handy.. I tried it to see if I could get 2 laptops at work to talk.. > 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 ? I did this :) I got minicom and Windows hyper terminal to talk.. I tried ppp, but alas :( I think it's because the port is half-duplex - I didn't have much time to fiddle, and now there is only one laptop at work.. --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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