From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 3 6:10:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from hiro.netizen.com.au (ivanova.netizen.com.au [203.30.75.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A62AC37B80A for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 06:10:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from benno@netizen.com.au) Received: by hiro.netizen.com.au (Postfix, from userid 516) id B1C41215EC; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 23:10:34 +1000 (EST) Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 23:10:34 +1000 From: Benno Rice To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Irda support Message-ID: <20000803231034.K3777@netizen.com.au> References: <20000803090040.A505@judea.rss.riteaid.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000803090040.A505@judea.rss.riteaid.com>; from j_dot_kasper@www.usa.net on Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 09:00:40AM -0500 X-Message-Flag: Outlook: More exploits than sendmail? Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 09:00:40AM -0500, Jason Kasper wrote: > Absolutely hotsync'ing via IR is neat. I carry my Palm (like the > card-carrying geek-member that I am) everywhere I go. But I'll be > darned if I want to have to carry my hotsync cradle everywhere that I > take my laptop. Bottom line, it is much more convenient to grab > something off the net and install it via IR in 5 seconds than have to > wait until I get home and then remember to do it before I leave the > house.... Anyhoo, I've not gotten what I'm assuming is at least 2 > previous messages in this thread, but it looks like IR is not on > anybody's priority list for the FBSD kernel? Well it's on mine, but I'm a way off yet. I hope to make some significant progress this weekend, which may or may not result in a vaguely functional IrLAP netgraph node. Then I need to write an IrLMP node, a TinyTP node and an IrCOMM node. Then you'll be able to HotSync, assuming your laptop's IR port shows up as a serial device. =) -- Benno Rice "No, no. We're *sweet* and XNFP Aries Dark Subculture- *innocent* evil bastards." friendly Internet Geek benno@netizen.com.au "Defend your joy" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message