Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:31:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, Brian Somers <brian@freebsd-services.com>, Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com> Subject: Re: ppp over infrared device Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107231529590.19434-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20010723215220.A13467@freno.cs.tu-berlin.de>
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yes we know that linux supports irda but we are taking a slightly different path. We can use their code for reference but we are not using it directly. On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Wolfram Schneider wrote: > 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 <wosch@FreeBSD.org> http://wolfram.schneider.org > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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