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Date:      Sat, 7 Apr 2001 11:03:12 +1000
From:      Benno Rice <benno@FreeBSD.org>
To:        aaron <aaron@meta.lo-res.org>
Cc:        Panagiotis Astithas <past@netmode.ntua.gr>, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, Mark Sergeant <msergeant@snsonline.net>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Infrared support
Message-ID:  <20010407110312.A41024@rafe.jeamland.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104061258190.4679-100000@meta.lo-res.org>; from aaron@meta.lo-res.org on Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 12:59:53PM %2B0200
References:  <20010406124142.B22484@netmode.ece.ntua.gr> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104061258190.4679-100000@meta.lo-res.org>

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On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 12:59:53PM +0200, aaron wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Panagiotis Astithas wrote:
>=20
>=20
> Hi!
>=20
> concerning irda:
>=20
>=20
> > On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 03:24:28PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > >=20
> > > On 06-Apr-2001 Mark Sergeant wrote:
> > > >  Hi gang,
> > > > =20
> > > >       I have looked throughout the web and can not find anything an=
ywhere as
> > > >  to the availability of Infrared support in FreeBSD. I have a Sharp=
 PC AX20
> > > >  laptop and a nokia 8210 mobile that I would like to be able to use=
 via gnokii.
> [...]
>=20
> > The unfortunate thing is that I believe 8210 communicates only through
> > IrDA, so you are probably hosed until we get IrDA support for FreeBSD.
> > I could be wrong though.
>=20
> ok, who is working on it already? If nobody is, I will volunteer to make
> a prototype irda stack. anybody going to join me?

I started working on it a while back.  You can find the stuff I did at:
	http://people.freebsd.org/~benno/irda.tar.gz

Note that while I was using the Linux code as a guide where the docs were
confusing, I wasn't going to port their code across as I felt that Netgraph
was a better fit for this than the way Linux did it.

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Benno Rice
benno@FreeBSD.org

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