From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Aug 5 6: 5:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (sydney.worldwide.lemis.com [192.109.197.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B708537B607 for ; Sat, 5 Aug 2000 06:05:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA31686; Sat, 5 Aug 2000 07:58:07 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 07:58:07 +1000 From: Greg Lehey To: Benno Rice Cc: Scott Hazen Mueller , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Irda support Message-ID: <20000805075807.B31658@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> References: <200008040151.JAA08767@zorba.sf-bay.org> <20000804115924.C3266@netizen.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000804115924.C3266@netizen.com.au>; from benno@netizen.com.au on Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 11:59:24AM +1000 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 4 August 2000 at 11:59:24 +1000, Benno Rice wrote: > 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. Let me know when you have something to test. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message