From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 3 18:59:34 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 413FE37B9B5 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 18:59:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from benno@netizen.com.au) Received: by hiro.netizen.com.au (Postfix, from userid 516) id C4DF7215EC; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 11:59:24 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 11:59:24 +1000 From: Benno Rice To: Scott Hazen Mueller Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Irda support Message-ID: <20000804115924.C3266@netizen.com.au> References: <200008040151.JAA08767@zorba.sf-bay.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200008040151.JAA08767@zorba.sf-bay.org>; from scott@zorch.sf-bay.org on Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 09:51:09AM +0800 X-Message-Flag: Outlook: More exploits than sendmail? Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 09:51:09AM +0800, Scott Hazen Mueller wrote: > [I've been reading via the archive, let's see if I can post without > subscribing to the actual list...] > > First - Benno, you might want to look at > http://www.posi.net/freebsd/drivers/driver-info.phtml?ID=4 and see if Martin > is doing anything with his IRDA driver project. Maybe it will save you some > work, though offhand your two approaches sound different to me. I saw that a while back, although I haven't got in contact yet. (Mea culpa) > Second - is it worth having? I think the answer to that is if the FreeBSD > folks want tech types - those folks already running FreeBSD on servers - to be > able to use F as a replacement for W, then support for things like IRDA are > good to have. I think it's a nice thing to have. I'm writing it because I'd like to be able to communicate with my Palm, but I could also see possibilities in other areas. -- 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