From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Jul 22 19:37: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (gw.Awfulhak.org [217.204.245.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A36C737B401 for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 19:37:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f6N2aWI02029; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 03:36:33 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@lan.Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f6N2aVg14455; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 03:36:31 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200107230236.f6N2aVg14455@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: "Daniel O'Connor" Cc: Wolfram Schneider , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, Brian Somers , Paul Richards , Julian Elischer Subject: Re: ppp over infrared device In-Reply-To: Message from "Daniel O'Connor" of "Sun, 22 Jul 2001 22:39:27 +0930." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 03:36:30 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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 -- Brian http://www.freebsd-services.com/ Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message