Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 10:46:07 +1000 From: Benno Rice <benno@netizen.com.au> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Irda support Message-ID: <20000804104607.A3266@netizen.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200008031535.JAA02986@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 09:35:37AM -0600 References: <20000803231034.K3777@netizen.com.au> <NCBBKPEFMKOJPIMNAGPAAEKKEJAA.hank@yerpso.net> <XFMail.000803131159.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20000803090040.A505@judea.rss.riteaid.com> <20000803231034.K3777@netizen.com.au> <200008031535.JAA02986@harmony.village.org>
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On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 09:35:37AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <20000803231034.K3777@netizen.com.au> Benno Rice writes: > : 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. =) > > Personally, I'd love to be able to use the IRda port since it is > faster than the serial port on my WinCE machines. However, I have > less than zero time for this. Buying an ethernet card fixed this > problem (which really was a problem on how to get netbsd boot images > to the wince machine, but I digress). Heh. =) > Even if we have irda support in the kernel, hotsync takes an > additional protocol layer, kinda like FTP but not really. It is the > same as having IP but no ftpd I guess is what I'm trying to say. > Microsoft doesn't document the hotsync protocol at all :-(. /usr/ports/palm has a lot of stuff that implements the HotSync protocol. My intention was for IrCOMM connections to show up as a tty-like device, which means that you just point one of those at /dev/ttyi0 or somesuch. =) -- 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
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