From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 2 18:24:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD8B637B53E for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 18:24:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA22846 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 10:54:15 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20000802135547.A2521@judea.rss.riteaid.com> Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 10:54:15 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Irda support Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 02-Aug-00 Jason Kasper wrote: > I realize this may be slightly off-topic, but for the life of me, I > can't find any reference anywhere > (google/altavista/deja.com/freebsd.org/etc.) that would indicate that > anybody is even looking at irda support for freebsd. Are there any > plans to support irda in the freebsd kernel in the upcoming time-frame? A guy called Benno Rice working on IrDA at the moment.. Last I talked to him he said he is going to get the code to a point where it can do an IrCOMM connection and then release the source code.. > Far be it from me to encourage holy wars, but it gets tiring hearing the > linux-user crowd chortling over their kernel's ability to do irda when > mine can't. There are plenty of things FreeBSD does better :) --- 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message