From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 3 10: 9:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from phb.avic.dk (phb.avic.dk [212.54.72.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8175637B566 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 10:09:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jens@fallesen.dk) Received: from fallesen.dk (dilbert.avic.dk [212.54.72.26]) by phb.avic.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3/PHB/11[AntiSpam]) with ESMTP id TAA19326 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 19:09:21 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3989A741.E4814902@fallesen.dk> Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 19:09:21 +0200 From: Jens Fallesen Organization: AVIC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: da, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Irda support References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Henry F. Marquardt" wrote: > > I agree, this is a 'lost' technology, a solution in search of a problem. > Even the palm crowd doesn't use it much that I've seen - I remember some of > the early marketing hype there with people swapping IR business cards - I > don't think I've ever seen anyone do that and I don't think I could figure > out how in any reasonable amount of time with mine - it'd be quicker to > scribble on a napkin. > > Same with my laptop, it was configured as com2 and as far as I was concerned > just taking up IRQ space - I turned it off when I put FBSD on there. > Doesn't mean you should play with it, but what are you going to *use* it > for? > > Hank > > > -----Original Message----- "Henry F. Marquardt" wrote: > I agree, this is a 'lost' technology, a solution in search of a problem. I certainly do not agree with you on that. > Doesn't mean you should play with it, but what are you going to *use* it > for? It is quite popular in great parts of Europe for linking up mobile phones for making data calls and other features. The fact that IrCOMM was taken out of Windows 2000 has upset quite a few people here. -- Jens Fallesen O- Hedegaardsvej 41 st th, 2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark Phone: (+45) 32 86 18 99 * Fax: (+45) 32 86 17 99 CCIE #5470 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message