From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Jul 23 12:56:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5121537B406 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 12:56:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de) Received: from freno.cs.tu-berlin.de (wosch@freno.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.167]) by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA07114; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 21:52:21 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wosch@localhost) by freno.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA13606; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 21:52:21 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 21:52:21 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider To: Julian Elischer Cc: Brian Somers , "Daniel O'Connor" , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, Brian Somers , Paul Richards Subject: Re: ppp over infrared device Message-ID: <20010723215220.A13467@freno.cs.tu-berlin.de> References: <200107230236.f6N2aVg14455@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> <3B5BC1EB.36ACF039@elischer.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <3B5BC1EB.36ACF039@elischer.org>; from julian@elischer.org on Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 11:19:23PM -0700 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 On 2001-07-22 23:19:23 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > > 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 It looks like Linux support IrDa: http://security.nta.no/vaio_ir.html How hard would it be to port it to FreeBSD? If I have the choice between MS Windows and GPL software, I prefer GPL. -Wolfram -- Wolfram Schneider http://wolfram.schneider.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message