From owner-freebsd-current Sun May 3 18:09:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA09803 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 3 May 1998 18:09:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA09781 for ; Sun, 3 May 1998 18:08:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@cain.gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA24298; Mon, 4 May 1998 10:38:24 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199805040108.KAA24298@cain.gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Luigi Rizzo cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Infrared ? (a simple experiment for laptop owners...) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 02 May 1998 15:44:50 +0200." <199805021344.PAA03038@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 10:38:24 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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