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Date:      Mon, 23 Jul 2001 03:36:30 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, Brian Somers <brian@freebsd-services.com>, Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Subject:   Re: ppp over infrared device 
Message-ID:  <200107230236.f6N2aVg14455@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>  of "Sun, 22 Jul 2001 22:39:27 %2B0930." <XFMail.20010722223927.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> 

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> On 22-Jul-2001 Wolfram Schneider wrote:
> >  I have a Sony Vaio PCG 745 with a infrared device.
> >  I want use the infrared device to communicate with a cell
> >  phone and running ppp.
> >  
> >  I configured the infrared device to use the irq 3 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff.
> >  
> >  This works fine on Windows98. I want do the same on FreeBSD ;-)
> 
> You need to write an IRDA stack.
> 
> Shouldn't take more than a few months..
> 
> Someone did start writing one but I think the project was dropped. The source
> code is still available though.

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 ?

> ---
> Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
> for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
> "The nice thing about standards is that there
> are so many of them to choose from."
>   -- Andrew Tanenbaum

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