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Date:      Mon, 2 Jul 2001 10:22:13 -0500
From:      "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@iteration.net>
To:        Panagiotis Astithas <past@netmode.ntua.gr>
Cc:        Dinesh Nair <dinesh@alphaque.com>, Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com>, Richard Johnson <raj@cisco.com>, Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx>, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Nokia 8210
Message-ID:  <20010702102213.E98201@peorth.iteration.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010702161200.E93988@netmode.ece.ntua.gr>; from past@netmode.ntua.gr on Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 04:12:01PM %2B0300
References:  <20010701103945.52418@localhost> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107020019280.472-100000@prophet.alphaque.com> <20010702161200.E93988@netmode.ece.ntua.gr>

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On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 04:12:01PM +0300, Panagiotis Astithas scribbled:
| On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 12:20:26AM +0800, Dinesh Nair wrote:
| > 
| > On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Scott Mitchell wrote:
| > 
| > > of it -- it looks just like any other serial port device.  Most of these
| > > handsets will also talk IrDA.  My Nokia 7110 is an example of such a
| > > handset.  Older models, like the 5110, don't have the modem emulation and
| > 
| > question is, has anyone managed to get freebsd to talk irda thru the ir
| > port ? i see my ir port is recognized as sio2 upon bootup, but cant seem
| > to speak to anything. 
| 
| IrDa is not supported in FreeBSD, but you can use the infrared adapter as a 
| serial port to communicate with the phone. Some phones (e.g. Nokia 6110) use
| a subset of IrDA (IrCOMM) that makes this possible. You have to use gnokii
| though to connect to the phone.

Panagiotis is correct.  As long as your IrDA port is detected
as a sio, you can use this as your modem port.

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