hi, i just recently purchased an irda dongle to use with my cellphone, but unhappily just after the purchase i found myself in the situation where my last choice of software, freebsd, does not support it. it's not only the 'item' itself, the whole irda support seems to be missing :S
is anyone working on porting irda devices into freebsd ? netbsd seems to have an implementation which could be perhaps used as a reference to implement them. i've not yet worked myself through all the documentation that is related to irda communication, (there are zillion obfuscated pdf files moving around, takes a while), but it shouldn't be impossible to bring irda support into freebsd. i agree that most of freebsd users probably don't give a damn about irda support, but still it's kind of wierd that such a popular OS has no support for irda in it's kernel by 2005. i'm sure none would mind to control their pc-s with a remote or interact with other computer related devices (everything from laptops down to mobiles and palms) over irda. -- ########## Martin Roos _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
