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Date:      Thu, 03 Aug 2000 10:54:15 +0930 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Irda support
Message-ID:  <XFMail.000803105415.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20000802135547.A2521@judea.rss.riteaid.com>

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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.  

<shrugs> 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


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