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Date:      29 Jan 2003 19:17:22 -0500
From:      "Brandon S. Allbery " KF8NH <allbery@ece.cmu.edu>
To:        George Hartzell <hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-mobile list <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Help w/ palm pilot infrared hotsync.
Message-ID:  <1043885842.20477.21.camel@rushlight.kf8nh.apk.net>
In-Reply-To: <15928.24323.631420.576233@rosebud.alerce.com>
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On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 18:08, George Hartzell wrote:
> The bios setup screen only gives me the option of FIR.  A bit of
> googling around suggests that the Palm can do FIR.  What's the
> constraint that causes you to require SIR?

FIR doesn't show up as a serial port, and it requires a special driver. 
No such drivers currently exist for FreeBSD.

However, if the Vaio is willing to make it visible as a serial port then
presumably it autoswitches between FIR and SIR and will work when used
via the serial port interface.

-- 
brandon s allbery [openafs/solaris/japh/freebsd] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
system administrator [linux/heimdal/too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering                              KF8NH
carnegie mellon university  [better check the oblivious first -ke6sls]


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